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Yamikin Dogs (2015)
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Original name: 闇金ドッグス
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tadaomy Ando became a yakuza boss at a young age. Because of his subordinate, he quit the yakuza. Now, he learns from Takashi Konaka the trade of illegal money lending and how to collect debts. Tadaomy Ando decides to become a loan shark. He has customers, but has a hard time collecting debts.
Style:
crime drama, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark, realistic, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, con artists, loan shark, fraud, mafia, criminal, mafioso, escapades, debt, satire, cons and scams, crime boss, criminal underworld, gangster, violence, corruption, mature, power struggle, urban, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, streetwise, anti hero, street crime ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
tokyo
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Most similar movies to Yamikin Dogs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, satirical and semi serious films with plots about moral ambiguity, organized crime, satire, corruption, urban, criminal underworld and betrayal mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Yamikin Dogs: Sucker (2015), Ushijima the Loan Shark 2 (2014), Ushijima the Loan Shark (2010), Ushijima the Loan Shark 3 (2016), Finders Keepers (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, satirical, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
con artists, caper, card playing, love, fraud, satire, love interest, humour, escapades, love story, love affair, cons and scams ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
Style:
tense, dark drama, satirical, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
criminal underworld, debt, loan shark, poverty, desperation, stolen money, satire, bandit, urban setting, money problems, criminal, gang ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
debt, black market, superhero, criminal underworld, loan shark, business and finance, needing money, financial problem, money problems, money, finance, social realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
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Story:
Kaoru Ushijima's Kaukau Finance is the lender of last resort for many of the poorest people in the area: He collects without mercy and without fail.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, light, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
loan shark, debt collector, black market, debt, social relations, money problems, white trash, humour, social misfits, financial problem, social problems, society ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Story:
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
Style:
psychological, dark, semi serious, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
office worker, debt, loan shark, black market, desperation, coworker, workplace situations, lifestyle, career, workplace, satire, office work ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lonnie and Brian go on the run from the Cape Town underworld, after finding a box filled with cash and a valuable wrist watch. They steal a lucky fish that they use to barter with the gangsters.
Style:
satirical, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
criminal, escapades, money, gang, changing lives, bandit, money falling through the air, satire, club, organized crime, underworld, desperation ...
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Özgür accidentally comes across the money of a mafia leader.
Style:
light, funny, entertaining, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
mafia, money, bandit, mistaken identity, mafioso, crime boss, gang, fake identity, gang leader, outlaw gang, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist gone wrong, escape, police, locksmith, social satire, robbery, escapades, satire, criminal, escape attempt, heist, safecracking ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
luxury, satire, family relations, money, money problems, business, mafia, organized crime, mobster, family conflict, family drama, criminal underworld ...
Place:
naples italy, venice
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After an irreverent TV show makes people less afraid of the Camorra, the actors begin receiving threats from the criminal organization.
Style:
parody, satirical, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, camorra, criminal underworld, organized crime, mafia, bandit, criminal gang, gang member, escapades, gang, unlikely criminals, gangster ...
Place:
italy, naples italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
The leader of the Diaz cartel goes missing, his troubled son Jerry takes charge and as he changes the way his father did business a DEA agent works to bring down the cartel not knowing what he got himself into.
Style:
crime drama, satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
drug cartel, drug traffic, violent, criminal underworld, gang violence, organized crime, family business, heir, gang, bandit, criminal gang, satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to turn it into a drug sales place.
Style:
captivating, satirical, semi serious, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
cartel, gang, drug dealer, neighborhood, drug traffic, drug, drug lord, criminal gang, gang war, con trick, drug cartel, satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cevat is the son of a famous mafia leader. He falls in love with a super model and he decides to kidnap her. The famous mafia boss has his men do this for his son. They kidnap her and plan how they will bring her to Cevat safely. On their way, the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, noir, black comedy
Plot:
kidnapping, organized crime, mafia, gangster, hostage, abduction, danger, criminal underworld, pursuit, desperation, rescue, betrayal ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ali and Sudi, who received a 10-year imprisonment for embedding many bodies in the backyard of a construction they had previously worked on, were now free after completing their sentences. After the past events, both friends are determined not to ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, semi serious, satirical, dark ...
Plot:
cover up, problem, corpse, workplace, confronting the past, disposing of a dead body, social satire, criminal, workplace situations, troubled past, satire, hidden corpse ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story charts the journey of two childhood friends Kohinoor Kalyan and Jilani Ramdas. They are both enthusiastic and easy-going. On an unfateful day, the duo loses a heavy amount in cricket betting. They unintentionally enter the villain's ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, trap, bet, gambling, friends, escapades, money problems, satire, money, risk, desperation, loyalty ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After two failed deliveries, a pair of motorcycle taxi drivers must recover the goods they lost for any hope of financially assisting their families.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
loan shark, heist, working class, problem, escapades, satire, lifestyle, theft, jewel robbery, criminal, driver, jewel theft ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mahsun constantly has to cope with police raids since he runs an illegal casino. Because he wants to continue to run this casino, Mahsun decides to establish a fake political party as a disguise. His aim is to keep the casino able to continue ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, police, illegal gambling, casino, problem, escapades, casino owner, deception, scheme, organized crime, black market, fraud ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
satire, heist, fugitives, silly humor, escapades, humour, unlikely criminals, runaway, friends, dark humor, urban, criminal underworld ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two rivals meet to settle old scores in a casino but things are interrupted by a raid.
Style:
tension, fast paced, suspenseful, twisted, action comedy ...
Plot:
casino, gambling, confrontation, urban, police raid, raid, rivalry, criminal underworld, nightlife, gangster, revenge, betrayal ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
TV show
Story:
Bahtiyar Olmez works in his father's cemetery. Bahtiyar's job is a funeral transport vehicle driver. He does not want to do this until the end of his life. He accepts an old friend's offer. He deposits his father's entire ...
Style:
satirical, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, changing lives, new identity, mafioso, new life, lifestyle change, lifestyle, humour, mafia don, family problems, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his father’s death, poor Berhudar is left dealing with his father’s huge debt to the mob. In one of his many attempts to find a way out of his problem, he meets Ezel. He hopes she will help him get out of the mess he is in. Little does he ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
locksmith, love story, poor, mafia, poverty, coping, male female relationship, fall in love, in love, couple relations, love and romance, debt ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.
Style:
satirical, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
arms dealing, military, caper, cons and scams, con artists, criminal, humour, arms dealer, arms smuggling, escapades, satire, theft ...
Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Jason known as the boss of the drug dealer's playground catches a man kidnapping TV star Linda Murphy.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, crime drama, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, crime boss, investigation, kidnapped woman, drug dealing, abduction, crime investigation, criminal, drug dealer, kidnapper, fighting crime, gangster ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
pretending to be someone else, escapades, actor, criminal gang, pretense, gang, con trick, organized crime, killer, bandit, deception, humour ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When a narco past his prime refuses to pay a debt to an upstart, only a secret stash of money can save his men. But guess what the gardener just found?
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, dark humor, drug, gang leader, crime boss, drug dealing, drug lord, criminal gang, gang, drug dealer, criminal, bandit ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
33%
182
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Superstar bouncer Steve Donovan is pulled back into the world of gang violence when he accepts the role of door protector at an upmarket club in Manchester.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, tension, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
danger, violence, gang violence, bouncer, organized crime, mob boss, security, urban, showdown, power struggle, criminal underworld, male protagonist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manchester, london
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
With the help of their mother, the Judah boys plan to rob a small mall. But when they arrive, they're met by real armed robbers.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
robbery, heist, dysfunctional family, heist gone wrong, problem, burglar, theft, satire, escapades, stealing money, criminal, mother ...
Place:
england, africa, nigeria
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Family. It can be the most important thing in the world. And it can also be a massive pain in the arse. Undercover is a high stakes action comedy about Chris, a lonely, over analysing neurotic traffic police officer who finds himself hopelessly out ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, ironic, semi serious ...
Plot:
gangster, satire, crime family, undercover, gang, mental disorder, escapades, bandit, criminal, irony, organized crime, fish out of water ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Holy Cash' follows the story of Pablo (Paul Rodriguez), a con artist seeking a new way to make money by deceiving people. Alongside his friend "Guero" (Jay Mohr), they discover that an ex-convict is masquerading as a successful ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, tension, suspense
Plot:
con artists, scam, fraud, ex convict, media manipulation, deception, latinx lead, betrayal, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, streetwise, ambitious ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
hitman, gangster, partner, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, drug dealing, viagra, sexual humor, mobster, organized crime, mafia ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
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