
10 Best Movies Like Sonatine
If you loved Sonatine, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Outrage
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge....

Branded to Kill
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin....

Female Yakuza Tale
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. 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, ...

Showdown in Little Tokyo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-Ame...

American Yakuza
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. 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...

Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonatine for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once ...