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A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Style: neo noir, bloody, cult classic, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heroic bloodshed, triad, gunfight, organized crime, police, yakuza, mafia, mobster, hate, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, future, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, taiwan, taipei
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the ...
Style: grindhouse, action adventure, crime drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, child rape, cannon, sex crime, violent, machine gun, drug dealing, prostitute, kidnapping, rape and revenge, revenge, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.6
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Frame by Frame (1996)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: yakuza, vietnam war, triad, nypd, policewoman, partner, police detective, murder, police corruption, pregnancy, gambling, investigation ...
Time: 90s
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, obsession, revenge, bank robbery, love, yakuza, kidnapping, interracial romance, car chase, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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American Samurai (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a father passes on the traditional family sword to one of his two adopted sons, the other--in a fit of jealous rage--joins a yakuza drug smuggling mob. When the other son decides to find him and set things straight, things don't seem to go ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, master warrior, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, gory, culture clash, gangster, contests and competitions, siblings relations, father son relationship, jealousy ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, turkey, istanbul turkey
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five ...
Style: brutal, non-linear, suspense, atmospheric, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, vigilante, vengeance, hitman, strong female lead, dark humor, martial arts, sword fight, mentor, retribution, tough girl, female assassin ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, persia, el paso texas, mexico
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XX: Beautiful Beast (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hit-woman goes after the Japanese mafia with a mad-on after her sister is killed. Beautiful, seductive Ran (Kaori Shimamura) harbors a secret: By night, she's the deadly assassin known as the Black Orchid. Her newest assignment started as an ...
Plot: yakuza, female assassin, assassin, mutilation, bondage, sex, gangster, torture, bloodbath, girls with guns, urination, gore
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A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hitman, killer, rivalry, mob boss, mafia, samurai, assassin, criminal, professional, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, asia
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Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Style: erotic, depressing, emotional, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: foreigner in japan, erotica, asian man white woman relationship, strong sexual content, sex with a stranger, sex in a hotel, female nudity, looking for sex, interracial love, identity crisis, sex, loneliness ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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 7.3
 2K
Gokusen (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, dorama ...
Plot: yakuza, teacher, school teacher, school, teachers and students, hardcase students, gain trust, mischievous children, criminal syndicate, social problems, coping, female protagonist ...
Place: japan
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 6.3
 75K
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the ...
Style: brutal, bloody, exciting, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, assassin, vengeance, kung fu, one man army, revenge, martial artist, one against many, ninja master, sword fight, hand to hand combat ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: china, osaka japan, berlin germany, asia
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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) and is a favorite target of theirs for ...
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, japanese mafia, extortion, hotel, gangster, satire, unlikely criminals, danger, tough heroes, mistaken identity, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan
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Bloody Territories (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is ...
Plot: yakuza, lesbian sex, revenge, syndicate, bloodbath, betrayal, self sacrifice, lesbian, infidelity, loan shark, lesbianism, violence ...
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Story of a Wild Elder Sister: Widespread Lynch Law (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, samurai, martial arts, sexploitation, gambling, exploitation, erotica, revenge, pink film, tattoo, rape, murder ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, japan
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Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, revenge, female yakuza, sword fight, exploitation, torture, opium, strong female lead, kung fu, sexploitation, female fight ...
Time: 20th century
Place: japan, asia
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi ...
Audience: manly
Plot: yakuza, hitman, female nudity, sex, mafioso, battles, mafia, samurai, revenge, psychopath, violence, prison ...
Time: 1950s
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Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, triad, lawyer, police officer, gay, sex crime, big city, gangster, chase, police detective, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, taipei, taiwan
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Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Iron Zhao aka Steelhead, a truck repairman from China's Northeast, and settles down as an illegal immigrant in Tokyo. After a series of run-ins with the Yakuza, he rises to power as the Don of Chinese illegal immigrants. However, things get out ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: gang war, yakuza, criminal syndicate, gang, immigrant, vengeance, danger, rivalry, drug lord, martial arts, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, triad ...
Place: japan, china, tokyo, asia, mount fuji ...
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Takeshis' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, postmodern ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, yakuza, dark humor, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, identity crisis, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Youth of the Beast (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: To infiltrate a criminal organization responsible for the death of one of his colleagues, the Detective Tajima adopts the behavior of of a brutal thug and plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, bloody, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female nudity, mafia, murder, police detective, organized crime, gang war, violence, working undercover, pimp, tough heroes, hitman ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: japan
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Branded to Kill (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Style: surreal, grindhouse, experimental, aesthetic, neo noir ...
Plot: yakuza, surrealism, hitman, assassin, killer, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, sex, female nudity, time travel, mafia ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, danger, gangster, murder, betrayal, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place: japan, asia
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 2K
Ley Lines (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, prostitute, organized crime, samurai, big city, triad, drug dealer, gang, gangster, friendship, intrigue, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
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 ...
Style: grindhouse, controversial, disturbing, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, fraternity, revenge, pink film, gangster, martial arts, samurai, woman, vigilante, rapist ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a ...
Style: erotic, erotic drama, grindhouse, sexy, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, yakuza, female nudity, sex, brothel, sexploitation, japanese history, whore, bondage, pimp, world war two veteran, fugitive ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: tokyo, asia
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Winter's Flower (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno ...
Style: epic, thrilling
Plot: yakuza, ex convict, betrayal, guardian, revenge motive, henchman, prison, revenge, correspondence, going straight
Place: brazil
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Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: yakuza, heist, shootout, armored truck, ex convict, heist gone wrong, car, woman in a wheelchair, brother sister relationship, horse race, boxer, airport ...
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Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Style: avant garde
Plot: yakuza, prostitution, gambling, animal, pig, poverty, u.s. navy, post war japan, criminal, female fight, shooting, dead body ...
Time: year 1961
Place: japan
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The Yakuza Wives (1986)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by ...
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, released from prison, girl fight, tattoo, fight, bare breasts, prison, marriage, love, murder, female nudity ...
Place: japan
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, manga, fast, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, superhero, samurai, sex, hitman, runaway, leaving home, escape, gangster, violent content, rivalry, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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