Movies like Boiling Point 1990
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Boiling Point (1990)
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Original name: 3-4X10月
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Style:
bloody, neo noir, art house, hood, crime drama, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying ...
Plot:
yakuza, revenge, gangster, gang, mafia, ghetto, baseball, japanese mafia, interracial relations, explosions, organized crime, asian, tragic event, sex crime, drinking, car crash, gas station, gang violence, foreigner in japan, police, dark humor, vengeance, rivalry, sport team, police investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, east asia, okinawa, asia, tokyo, okinawa japan
Keyword:
gangsters, bruise
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, rough, serious and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, violence, yakuza, rivalry, blood, gang and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Boiling Point: Wasabi (2001), Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974), Sex and Fury (1973), Sonatine (1993), Kikujiro (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story:
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Agent Zero (Miki Sugimoto) is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's ...
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japan, asia
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
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japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
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45%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
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Place:
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41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Style:
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39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
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yakuza, organized crime, police, culture clash, gunfight, chase, gang war, motorcycle, fish out of water, police investigation, japanese mafia, buddy cop ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to ...
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japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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23%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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22%
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
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20%
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Story:
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Story:
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