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10 Best Movies Like Tainted Badge

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

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#1
Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive

1999★ 6.4

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

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down....

#2
Bad City

Bad City

2022★ 6.9

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

Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run fo...

#3
Crying Freeman

Crying Freeman

1995★ 6.4

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

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful a...

#4
Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter

1966★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tainted Badge for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tets...

#5
Hell Dogs

Hell Dogs

2022★ 7.0

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

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members....

#6
American Yakuza

American Yakuza

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tainted Badge 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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