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Movies Like Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

If you liked Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy (1967), a 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. 1The Hummingbird Project

    The Hummingbird Project (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

  2. 2A Summer Place

    A Summer Place (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

  3. 3The Debt Collector

    The Debt Collector (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.

  4. 4Haru

    Haru (1996)

    ★ 7.9/10

    A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.

  5. 5Bed of Roses

    Bed of Roses (1996)

    ★ 5.9/10

    The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes…

  6. 6Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  7. 7A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby

    A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Christmas brings the ultimate gift to Aldovia: a royal baby. But first, Queen Amber must help her family and kingdom by finding a missing peace treaty.

  8. 8The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  9. 9Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

    Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)

    ★ 7/10

    After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

  10. 10The Eel

    The Eel (1997)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

  11. 11They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  12. 12Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  13. 13The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  14. 14Sharing Christmas

    Sharing Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A real estate developer is given the opportunity of his career to transform an old shopping complex into a prime location. Unfortunately, there is one tenant who is holding out—the Christmas shop owner he met by…

  15. 15Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  16. 16There Was a Father

    There Was a Father (1942)

    ★ 7/10

    Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

  17. 17The Island

    The Island (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and ultimately vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's…

  18. 18Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

    ★ 7/10

    A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

  19. 19Laughing Gravy

    Laughing Gravy (1931)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.

  20. 20The River

    The River (1984)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from…

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