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Movies Like Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love

If you liked Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love (1971), a crime and action movie directed by Kiyoshi Saeki, 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. 1Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and action

    Repeatedly 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…

  2. 2Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

    Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

    ★ 7/10Also action and crime

    A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

  3. 3The 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.

  4. 4Battles 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.

  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. 6Panic

    Panic (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…

  7. 7Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and action

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

  8. 8Mr. Long

    Mr. Long (2017)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and action

    Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.

  9. 9The 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.

  10. 10Female 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…

  11. 11The Last Days of American Crime

    The Last Days of American Crime (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.

  12. 12Batman: Gotham Knight

    Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and crime

    Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.

  13. 13Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

    Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison (2011)

    ★ 7.2/10Also action

    After his capture for attempted assassination of the Raikage, leader of Kumogakure, as well as killing Jōnin from Kirigakure and Iwagakure, Naruto is imprisoned in Hōzukijou: A criminal containment facility known as…

  14. 14K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

    K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and crime

    In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic…

  15. 15Siberian Education

    Siberian Education (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…

  16. 16Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass

    Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)

    ★ 7.7/10Also action

    With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon…

  17. 17The 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…

  18. 18High and Low

    High and Low (1963)

    ★ 8.4/10Also crime

    A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

  19. 19Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

    ★ 7.2/10Also action and crime

    While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

  20. 20Rainy Dog

    Rainy Dog (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

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