Movies like Naniwa Chūshingura
If Naniwa Chūshingura's mix of assassin, assassination and yakuza stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Naniwa Chūshingura's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 254 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, yakuza, revenge
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.
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Lady Snowblood
1973 · Directed by Toshiya Fujita · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, revenge · Also a Japanese crime film
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
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Branded to Kill
1967 · Directed by Seijun Suzuki · 91 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, yakuza · Also a Japanese crime film
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Brother
2000 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: assassination, yakuza · Also a Japanese crime film
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.
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Ichi the Killer
2001 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 129 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, yakuza · Also a Japanese crime film
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.
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Beyond Outrage
2012 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 112 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, revenge · Also a Japanese crime film
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.
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Boiling Point
1990 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 96 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, revenge · Also a Japanese crime film · From the same decade (1990s)
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 111 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, revenge
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
1998 · Directed by Kenji Kodama · 100 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also a Japanese crime film · From the same decade (1990s)
Ran’s secret past revealed! Ten years ago, something happened between her mom and dad. Now, plagued by nightmares, Ran is starting to remember… Meanwhile, a murderous card dealer breaks out of jail to seek revenge.
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Tokyo Drifter
1966 · Directed by Seijun Suzuki · 83 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza · Also a Japanese crime film
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo.
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Outrage
2010 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 109 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza · Also a Japanese crime film
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.
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, revenge · From the same decade (1990s)
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.