Movies Like Maji!
If you liked Maji! (1991), a crime movie directed by Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, 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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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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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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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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Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeSix interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.
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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 (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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Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeBatman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
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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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Tokyo Tribe (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeIn an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro, joins forces with heavy-hitting gangster Buppa of Buppa Town…
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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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Lupin the 3rd: Goemon's Blood Spray (2017)
★ 7.8/10Also crimeA yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship casino. Everything goes sideways when the famous thief, Lupin the Third, tries to rob the vessel. Lupin's being hunted by…
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The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeIn February 1999, a string of murders has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou on edge. These crimes share a disturbing resemblance to a similar set of homicides from 1995, when Shiki and Mikiya first met, and awaken a…
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeLupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.
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Defendor (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeA crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to…
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Crows Zero (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeThe 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.
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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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Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeMike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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Black Butler (2014)
★ 7/10Also crimeSet in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.
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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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Under the Open Sky (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also crimeMikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies…