Movies Like Chameleon
If you liked Chameleon, a crime and drama movie directed by Brillante Ma Mendoza, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaOcho 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…
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeAfter yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable…
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and dramaA former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even…
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The Outsider (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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The Yakuza (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaWhen George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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ICHI (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIchi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters…
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and dramaIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Outrage (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and dramaWhen a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
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Sex and Fury (1973)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeSex & 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 Shunosuke…
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Gonin (1995)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and dramaFive men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
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Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeThe struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
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Under the Open Sky (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and dramaMikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies…
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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaEddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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Kids Return (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crimeShinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world…
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Graveyard of Honor (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaA barkeeper saves a yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crimeRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog…
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
★ 6/10Also dramaA submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that…
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Black Rain (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaTwo 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. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and…
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Tokyo Tribe (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crimeIn an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro, joins forces with heavy-hitting gangster Buppa of Buppa Town…