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Movies Like Unification of Japan 57

If you liked Unification of Japan 57 (2023), a crime movie directed by Hiroyuki Tsuji, 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. 1The Yakuza

    The Yakuza (1974)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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.

  2. 2Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    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.

  3. 3Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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…

  4. 4Female Yakuza Tale

    Female Yakuza Tale (1973)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    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…

  5. 5House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Eddie 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.

  6. 6The Outsider

    The Outsider (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

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

  7. 7Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)

    ★ 8.1/10Also crime

    A 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…

  8. 8Hell Dogs

    Hell Dogs (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

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

  9. 9Gonin

    Gonin (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Five 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.

  10. 10Youth of the Beast

    Youth of the Beast (1963)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

  11. 11Crows Zero

    Crows Zero (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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.

  12. 12Baby Assassins

    Baby Assassins (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, their relationship quickly sours. But when they become…

  13. 13Battles Without Honor and Humanity

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime

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

  14. 14Outrage Coda

    Outrage Coda (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    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…

  15. 15Branded to Kill

    Branded to Kill (1967)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

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

  16. 16Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case

    Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    July 1, 2000. British 21-year-old Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo, sparking an international investigation — and an unyielding quest for justice.

  17. 17American Yakuza

    American Yakuza (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime

    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…

  18. 18Tokyo Tribe

    Tokyo Tribe (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    In 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…

  19. 19Beyond Outrage

    Beyond Outrage (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    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…

  20. 20Under the Open Sky

    Under the Open Sky (2021)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Mikami, 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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