Movies Like Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
If you liked Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble (1996), a movie directed by Sadao Nakajima, 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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Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
★ 6.5/10On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
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Graveyard of Honor (2002)
★ 6.3/10A 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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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
★ 7.1/10After 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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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
★ 7/10A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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American Yakuza (1993)
★ 5.8/10When 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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Crying Freeman (1995)
★ 6.4/10A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace…
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
★ 8/10An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Blood-C: The Last Dark (2012)
★ 7.1/10Tokyo, Winter. Despite the use of the Youth Ordinance Bill to enforce curfews for minors and regulate the use of the Internet, young people continue to fight for their own freedom through underground methods. One such…
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The Yakuza (1974)
★ 7.1/10When 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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Darc (2018)
★ 6.2/10To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
★ 7.3/10Repeatedly 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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Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Ocho 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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Ichi the Killer (2001)
★ 7/10As 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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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
★ 7.1/10Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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A Family (2021)
★ 7.4/10Taken 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.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
★ 8.1/10A 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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Silent Zone (2025)
★ 6/10In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.
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Predators (2010)
★ 6.3/10A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
★ 7.5/10When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
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Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Future (2015)
★ 7.4/10The battle is over, and they can go about their normal lives now... or so they thought. With no time to rejoice after miraculously saving Mirai from Beyond the Boundary, Mirai lost all her memories. Akihito, now a high…