10 Best Movies Like Paper Lantern
If you loved Paper Lantern, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
In Full Bloom
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arrang...
Graveyard of Honor
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Drama. 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....
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Action & 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...
American Yakuza
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Action. 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...
Rainy Dog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Drama. 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....
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Lantern for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The ci...