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10 Best Movies Like Down with The Big Boss

If you loved Down with The Big Boss, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 niece. Me...

#2
Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor

2002★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems....

#3
Rainy Dog

Rainy Dog

1997★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him....

#4
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 to escape, ...

#5
Street Mobster

Street Mobster

1972★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on....

#6
American Yakuza

American Yakuza

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Down with The Big Boss for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The p...

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