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10 Best Movies Like Pigs and Battleships

If you loved Pigs and Battleships, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Gate of Flesh

Gate of Flesh

1964★ 6.6

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

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semb...

#2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973★ 7.4

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

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....

#3
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 Pigs and Battleships 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...

#4
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pigs and Battleships 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, ...

#5
Darc

Darc

2018★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pigs and Battleships for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza....

#6
Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence

1992★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pigs and Battleships for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some s...

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