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Movies Like Bad City

If you liked Bad City (2022), a action and crime movie directed by Kensuke Sonomura, 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. 1Outrage

    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.

  2. 2Battles 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.

  3. 3Hell Dogs

    Hell Dogs (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10Also action and crime

    Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.

  4. 4American Yakuza

    American Yakuza (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and action

    When 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…

  5. 5Exit Wounds

    Exit Wounds (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he…

  6. 6First Love

    First Love (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and action

    One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female…

  7. 7Branded to Kill

    Branded to Kill (1967)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and action

    After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

  8. 8Out for Justice

    Out for Justice (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.

  9. 9The 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…

  10. 10Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and action

    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.

  11. 11Violent Cop

    Violent Cop (1989)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and action

    A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and yakuza activities.

  12. 12Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

    Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich…

  13. 13Sex 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…

  14. 14Darc

    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.

  15. 15Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American…

  16. 16Female 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…

  17. 17Brother

    Brother (2000)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

  18. 18Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and action

    Repeatedly 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…

  19. 19Showdown 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…

  20. 20Sonatine

    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…

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