Movies Like Girl Wife: The Terrified Sixteen-Year-Old
If you liked Girl Wife: The Terrified Sixteen-Year-Old (1960), a crime movie directed by Yūsuke Watanabe, 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.
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American Yakuza (1993)
★ 5.8/10Also crimeWhen 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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The Yakuza (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeWhen 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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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeAfter 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…
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Ichi the Killer (2001)
★ 7/10Also crimeAs 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.
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Graveyard of Honor (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeA barkeeper saves a yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeOcho 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…
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Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeIn order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's…
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
★ 8.1/10Also crimeA 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…
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Agitator (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeWhen a young yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss…
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Hell Dogs (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeBent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
★ 7/10Also crimeA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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Youth of the Beast (1963)
★ 7/10Also crimeWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Branded to Kill (1967)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeAfter botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeEddie 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.
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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeIn dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a…
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Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeA harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog…
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A Family (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeTaken 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.