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Movies Like Buyusenki Battle Chronicle

If you liked Buyusenki Battle Chronicle (2008), a action and crime movie directed by Masayuki Toyama, 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

    Outrage (2010)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and crime

    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.

  2. 2Black Rain

    Black Rain (1989)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    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…

  3. 3The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…

  4. 4The 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.

  5. 5Crows Zero

    Crows Zero (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10Also action and 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.

  6. 6Stone

    Stone (1974)

    ★ 6/10Also action and crime

    After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.

  7. 7Cruel Story of Youth

    Cruel Story of Youth (1960)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

  8. 8The 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.

  9. 9Gonin

    Gonin (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and 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. 10Battles Without Honor and Humanity

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and action

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

  11. 11Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American…

  12. 12The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…

  13. 13One Mile: Chapter Two

    One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and crime

    Former special forces operative Danny is forced back onto a remote island when a violent, secretive community takes revenge by abducting his daughter Alex, launching a relentless hunt against enemies prepared for his…

  14. 14Venus Wars

    Venus Wars (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action

    The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She…

  15. 15Dead or Alive

    Dead or Alive (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

  16. 16The Fable

    The Fable (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and crime

    The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.

  17. 17Showdown in Little Tokyo

    Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his…

  18. 18Female Yakuza Tale

    Female Yakuza Tale (1973)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and 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…

  19. 19Beyond Outrage

    Beyond Outrage (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also action and 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. 20American Yakuza

    American Yakuza (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and action

    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…

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