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Movies Like Jingi: Prologue

If you liked Jingi: Prologue (2001), a movie directed by Noboru Matsui, 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.

  1. 1Outrage Coda

    Outrage Coda (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and…

  2. 2Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    ★ 7.1/10

    After 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…

  3. 3Crying Freeman

    Crying Freeman (1995)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace…

  4. 4Altered Carbon: Resleeved

    Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.

  5. 5Branded to Kill

    Branded to Kill (1967)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

  6. 6Tekkonkinkreet

    Tekkonkinkreet (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight…

  7. 7Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

    Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

    ★ 7/10

    A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

  8. 8American Yakuza

    American Yakuza (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia…

  9. 9Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

    Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

  10. 10Why Don't You Play in Hell?

    Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10

    In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.

  11. 11Beyond Outrage

    Beyond Outrage (2012)

    ★ 7/10

    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…

  12. 12Outrage

    Outrage (2010)

    ★ 6.9/10

    When 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.

  13. 13Kamikaze Girls

    Kamikaze Girls (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

  14. 14Ichi the Killer

    Ichi the Killer (2001)

    ★ 7/10

    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.

  15. 15Black Rain

    Black Rain (1989)

    ★ 6.6/10

    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. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and…

  16. 16Sonatine

    Sonatine (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the…

  17. 17Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    ★ 8.5/10

    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and…

  18. 18Samurai X: The Motion Picture

    Samurai X: The Motion Picture (1997)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom and prosperity. Now…

  19. 19Battles Without Honor and Humanity

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10

    In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

  20. 20The Tale of Zatoichi

    The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

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