Movies Like Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
If you liked Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011), a thriller and drama movie directed by Tōya Satō, 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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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and dramaKaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life…
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Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerKaiji is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything he, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. He is given four games, which are challenges, and…
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Kakegurui: The Movie (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryHyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that…
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller and dramaIn Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
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Death Note (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also mystery and thrillerLight Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious…
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Battle Royale (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and mysteryIn the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira…
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Outrage (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller 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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Suspect X (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and mysteryA male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she…
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The Commuter (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mysteryA businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
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Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser (2009)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and thrillerA new member from the Black Organization that shrunk Shinichi's body manages to find out about Shinichi's transformation into Conan. This discovery starts to put those around him in danger as Gin and the other Black…
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The Outsider (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mysteryA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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High and Low (1963)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and thrillerA Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerOcho 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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The Yakuza (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerWhen 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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Black Rain (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerTwo 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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Stay (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery and thrillerPsychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaAgent Zero 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…
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Yojimbo (1961)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and thrillerA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin…
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Overdrive (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mysteryMaster car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.