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The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
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Tokyo Tribe
Film · 2014 · also crime and dramaIn 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...
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Code 8 Part II
Film · 2024 · also crime and science fictionIn a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
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Sharky's Machine
Film · 1981 · also crime and dramaPolice officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evi...
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The Yakuza
Film · 1974 · also crime and dramaWhen 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 invest...
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Gate of Flesh
Film · 1964 · also crime and dramaIn the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships...
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The Grissom Gang
Film · 1971 · also crime and dramaViolent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in lov...
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The Outsider
Film · 2018 · also crime and dramaA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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The Unforgivable
Film · 2021 · also crime and dramaA woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Suburbicon
Film · 2017 · also crime and dramaIn the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a ho...
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Female Yakuza Tale
Film · 1973 · also crime and dramaOcho 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 t...
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