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Movies Like The Successful Businessmen Handbook II: Leadership Skills You Can Learn from the Yakuza

If you liked The Successful Businessmen Handbook II: Leadership Skills You Can Learn from the Yakuza (2007), a movie directed by Kensuke Tsukuda, 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)

    ★ 6.5/10

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

  2. 2Beyond 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…

  3. 3American 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…

  4. 4A 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.

  5. 5Darc

    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.

  6. 6Tokyo 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…

  7. 7Falcon 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.

  8. 8Bad City

    Bad City (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating…

  9. 9Kids 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…

  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. 11Hell 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.

  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. 13Adrift 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.

  14. 14Black 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…

  15. 15Drunken 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…

  16. 16Outrage 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…

  17. 17Why 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.

  18. 18The 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.

  19. 19Sympathy for the Underdog

    Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

  20. 20The 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.

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