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10 Best Movies Like ! [ai-ou]

If you loved ! [ai-ou], we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Action & Drama & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jaz...

#2
Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Action & Drama & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yak...

#3
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Action & Drama & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#4
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Drama & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

#5
Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Drama & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the...

#6
The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to ! [ai-ou] for fans of Action & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese ...

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