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10 Best Movies Like Yakuza: Like a Dragon

If you loved Yakuza: Like a Dragon, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Outsider

The Outsider

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka....

#2
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 Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Action & 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...

#3
The Fable

The Fable

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Action & Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka....

#4
American Yakuza

American Yakuza

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Action & 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 Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Action & 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
The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakuza: Like a Dragon for fans of Action & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese ...

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