Drunken Angel (1948), Zatoichi (2003), Black Rain (1988), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Fireworks (1997), Lady Snowblood (1973), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Yakuza movies.
Storyline: 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 Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, drama, japan, usa, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace. There he mets his former colleague Momo and his daughter Yumi who he did not know was ever born. Hubert eventually finds out why his girlfriend left him and the reason becomes his and his new daughters problem.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, french film, japan, police, luc besson ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly if unhappily involved with the gangsters.
Plot Keywords: action, martial arts, crime, revenge, female lead, fighting, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, horror, zombie, violence, crime, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, action, gangster, violence, revenge, japan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.
Plot Keywords: action, western, violence, revenge, gunfight, gore, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective Chris Kenner was orphaned as a child as his father was in the service and was killed and lived in Japan. Now he is on the trail of ruthless Yakuza leader named Yoshido, who helped establish a small Japanese area in Los Angeles and is now running a drug ring disguised as a brewery. However, Kenner must team up with a Japanese-American detective named Johnny Murata, and he also must protect a witness named Minako who would testify against Yoshido. But what Kenner will soon discover that he will be in a lot more than what he bargained for.
Plot Keywords: action, martial arts, crime, gangster, los angeles, revenge, bromance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American teenager named Sean Boswell is a loner in school, however he challenges his rival for an illegal street racing, and he totals his car in the end of the race. To avoid time in prison he is sent to Tokyo to live with his father who is in the military. As soon as he arrives he discovers a new, fun but dangerous way of street racing in the underworld of the streets of Tokyo, Japan.
Plot Keywords: action, racing, tokyo, teen, adventure, crime, custom cars ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When George Tanner (Brian Keith) does business with the high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) to Japan to investigate. Harry starts by visiting his old flame, Eiko (Kishi Keiko), and enlists her brother, Ken (Takakura Ken), to help him search. Together, they find the girl, but Ken wounds one of Tono's men and is subsequently marked for death by the Yakuza. Wracked with guilt, Kilmer tries to exonerate Ken.
Plot Keywords: japan, crime, action, revenge, drama, violence, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura's gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the gang view Kageyama with disdain and ridicule him for his inability to get tattooed due to sensitive skin. One day, assassins aware of boss Kamiura's secret arrive from abroad and deliver him an ultimatum: Return to the international syndicate he left years ago, or die. Kamiura refuses and, during a fierce battle with anime-otaku martial-arts expert Kyoken, is torn limb from limb. With his dying breath, Kamiura bites Kageyama, passing on his vampire powers to the unsuspecting yakuza. As he begins to awaken to his newfound abilities, Kageyama's desire to avenge the murder of boss Kamiura sets him on a course for a violent confrontation with Kaeru-kun, the foreign syndicate's mysterious and seemingly unstoppable leader!
Plot Keywords: vampire, action, violence, fantasy, gore, cult film, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A detective involves a presumed-dead crime boss (Beat Takeshi) in his plan to crack down on organized crime by igniting a war between two yakuza factions.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, violence, sequel, revenge, gang war, bloody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Tokyo, a minister of public works is rumored to be taking evidence of corruption to a reporter: the CIA, the yakuza, and others want to grab the information and use it to squeeze the government. On the subway trip to meet the reporter, the official is murdered, but it looks like a heart attack. However, no one, including the murderer, can find the flash drive with the evidence. Now the CIA, gangsters, and the city police are searching. The dead official's daughters are in danger: the shadowy John Rain, ex-special forces and perhaps now in league with North Korea, tries to stay one step ahead as he looks for the flash drive and protects one of the daughters.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, spy, assassin, tokyo, japan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While wandering through the wilds of Japan with his 3-year-old son, Daigoro, (Akihiro Tomikawa), assassin-for-hire Ogami Itto (Tomisaburô Wakayama) finds his next assignment -- he's hired to kill a merchant intent on revealing corporate secrets. On Ogami's tail, however, is a trio of female ninjas who have been sent to kill him and his son. When Ogami is wounded in battle, the toddler rises to the occasion and helps nurse his father back to health in time for a second sword fight.
Plot Keywords: revenge, violence, action, swordplay, bloody, epic, adventure ...
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