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Movies Like The Successful Businessmen Handbook III: Economic Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza

If you liked The Successful Businessmen Handbook III: Economic Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza (2007), a movie directed by Atsushi Yamamura, 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. 1Altered Carbon: Resleeved

    Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10

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

  2. 2Female Yakuza Tale

    Female Yakuza Tale (1973)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  3. 3Kids Return

    Kids Return (1996)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Shinji 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…

  4. 4Darc

    Darc (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

  5. 5Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence (1992)

    ★ 6/10

    A 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…

  6. 6The Yakuza

    The Yakuza (1974)

    ★ 7.1/10

    When 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.

  7. 7Beyond 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…

  8. 8Adrift in Tokyo

    Adrift in Tokyo (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

  9. 9A Family

    A Family (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

  10. 10Outrage

    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.

  11. 11Falcon Rising

    Falcon Rising (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.

  12. 12Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

  13. 13The Outsider

    The Outsider (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

  14. 14American 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…

  15. 15Tokyo 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…

  16. 16Drunken Angel

    Drunken Angel (1948)

    ★ 7.6/10

    In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward…

  17. 17Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A barkeeper saves a yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

  18. 18Black 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…

  19. 19Hell Dogs

    Hell Dogs (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.

  20. 20Crows Zero

    Crows Zero (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10

    The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.

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