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10 Best Movies Like Goodbye Cruel World

If you loved Goodbye Cruel World, 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 Goodbye Cruel World for fans of Crime & Drama. 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
Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine

1979★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Goodbye Cruel World for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....

#3
Agitator

Agitator

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Goodbye Cruel World for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in t...

#4
American Yakuza

American Yakuza

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Goodbye Cruel World 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...

#5
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Goodbye Cruel World for fans of Crime & Drama. 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, ...

#6
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Goodbye Cruel World for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

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