Films like Sympathy for the Underdog

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   The Outsider

   Film · 2018 · also crime and drama

   A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

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   Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

   Film · 1973 · also action and crime

   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...

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   Female Yakuza Tale

   Film · 1973 · also 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 t...

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   Black Rain

   Film · 1989 · also action and drama

   Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Jap...

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   Youth of the Beast

   Film · 1963 · also action and crime

   When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

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   Graveyard of Honor

   Film · 2002 · also action and crime

   A 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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   The Yakuza

   Film · 1974 · also crime and drama

   When 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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   Gonin

   Film · 1995 · also action and 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.

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   Sonatine

   Film · 1993 · also 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 b...

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    Tokyo Drifter

    Film · 1966 · also action and crime

    After 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...

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