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Movies Like Silk Hat Boss

If you liked Silk Hat Boss (1970), a action and crime movie directed by Norifumi Suzuki, 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. 1Sex and Fury

    Sex and Fury (1973)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke…

  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 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.

  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. 5Gonin

    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.

  6. 6Darc

    Darc (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action

    To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

  7. 7Youth of the Beast

    Youth of the Beast (1963)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and action

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

  8. 8City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

    City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    When gorgeous model Ai Shindo finds herself stalked by mysterious men, she comes to Ryo and his crew for protection. While he tries to hunt down the potential assassins (and maybe score a little nookie in the process)…

  9. 9Sanjuro

    Sanjuro (1962)

    ★ 7.9/10Also action

    In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its…

  10. 10Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships (1961)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

  11. 11Showdown 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…

  12. 12The 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.

  13. 13Crows 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.

  14. 14Outrage

    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.

  15. 15The Street Fighter

    The Street Fighter (1974)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

  16. 16Sonatine

    Sonatine (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also action and crime

    Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the…

  17. 17Female 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…

  18. 18Shinjuku Triad Society

    Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

  19. 19Zatoichi

    Zatoichi (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also action

    Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

  20. 20The 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…

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