Movies Like Gambling Kitten

If you liked Gambling Kitten (1965), a crime movie directed by Haruyasu Noguchi, 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
Outrage (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also 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.
2
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
★ 8/10Also crime
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
3
Fireworks (1997)
★ 7.7/10Also crime
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With those close to him suffering their own tribulations, Nishi's methods become increasingly extreme.
4
Sex and Fury (1973)
★ 6.2/10Also 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…
5
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
★ 8.1/10Also crime
A 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…
6
Beyond Outrage (2012)
★ 7/10Also crime
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now…
7
Lady Snowblood (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also crime
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
8
Vendetta (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
When his daughter is murdered, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands, setting out on a quest for retribution. After killing the street thug responsible for her death, he finds himself in the middle of a war…
9
Ichi the Killer (2001)
★ 7/10Also crime
As 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.
10
Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also 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
Crows Zero (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also 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.
12
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
13
Sonatine (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also 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…
14
Branded to Kill (1967)
★ 7.2/10Also crime
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
15
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.
16
Gonin (1995)
★ 6.6/10Also 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.
17
Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also crime
Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.
18
Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
In 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…
19
Outrage Coda (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and…
20
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.