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  • Won Bin and Kim Sae-ron in The Man from Nowhere (2010)

    1. The Man from Nowhere

    20101h 59mR
    7.7 (78K)
    A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
    DirectorLee Jeong-beomStarsWon BinKim Sae-ronKim Tae-hoon
  • Exiled (2006)

    2. Exiled

    20061h 50mR73Metascore
    7.2 (10K)
    A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsNick CheungAnthony Chau-Sang WongFrancis Ng
  • Election 2 (2006)

    3. Election 2

    20061h 33mUnrated83Metascore
    7.4 (7.2K)
    As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooSimon YamNick Cheung
  • Election (2005)

    4. Election

    20051h 41mUnrated73Metascore
    7.1 (12K)
    Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooSuet LamTony Ka Fai Leung
  • The Mission (1999)

    5. The Mission

    19991h 24mNot Rated
    7.5 (6.5K)
    Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination, hires five killers for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung gives a special order.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongFrancis NgJackie Chung-yin Lui
  • Jacky Cheung in Bullet in the Head (1990)

    6. Bullet in the Head

    19902h 16mNot Rated
    7.5 (12K)
    When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
    DirectorJohn WooStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiJacky CheungWaise Lee
  • Takeshi Kitano in Fireworks (1997)

    7. Fireworks

    19971h 43m83Metascore
    7.7 (34K)
    Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoKayoko KishimotoRen Ôsugi
  • Sonatine (1993)

    8. Sonatine

    19931h 34mR73Metascore
    7.5 (24K)
    Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoAya KokumaiTetsu Watanabe
  • Takeshi Kitano, Hakuryû, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ittoku Kishibe, Yutaka Matsushige, Ken Mitsuishi, Tatsuo Nadaka, Ikuji Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ren Ôsugi, Sansei Shiomi, Pierre Taki, Kanji Tsuda, Nao Ômori, Taizô Harada, and Tokio Kaneda in Outrage Coda (2017)

    9. Outrage Coda

    20171h 44m58Metascore
    6.4 (3.7K)
    Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoToshiyuki NishidaTatsuo Nadaka
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

    10. Battles Without Honor and Humanity

    19731h 39mNot Rated
    7.4 (4.6K)
    During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsBunta SugawaraHiroki MatsukataKunie Tanaka
  • Violent Cop (1989)

    11. Violent Cop

    19891h 43mNot Rated
    7.1 (14K)
    A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoMaiko KawakamiMakoto Ashikawa
  • Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)

    12. Shinjuku Triad Society

    19951h 40mNot Rated
    6.6 (2.6K)
    Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKippei ShînaTomorô TaguchiTakeshi Caesar
  • Boiling Point (1990)

    13. Boiling Point

    19901h 36mNot Rated
    6.7 (7.9K)
    Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoYûrei YanagiYuriko Ishida
  • Yakuza and the Family (2020)

    14. Yakuza and the Family

    20202h 16m
    7.1 (3.5K)
    Kenji Yamamoto's father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki. Hiroshi reaches out to Kenji and they developed a relationship like father and son. As time passes, Kenji has his own family.
    DirectorMichihito FujiiStarsGô AyanoNaoyuki FernandezHayato Ichihara
  • Gozu (2003)

    15. Gozu

    20032h 9mRVideo58Metascore
    6.9 (13K)
    A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsYûta SoneKimika YoshinoShôhei Hino
  • Tokyo Rampage (1998)

    16. Tokyo Rampage

    19981h 38mNot Rated
    6.5 (1.2K)
    A young man gets off the train in the morning and wanders the business districts aimlessly. He runs across some yakuza gangsters, whom he despises, and goes on a killing spree, but soon becomes involved with a subordinate gang.
    DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsChihara JuniaOnimaruAkaji Maro
  • Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)

    17. Black Coal, Thin Ice

    20141h 50mNot Rated70Metascore
    6.7 (10K)
    An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
    DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsFan LiaoLun-Mei GweiXuebing Wang
  • Louis Koo, Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Anita Yuen, and Jingchu Zhang in Protégé (2007)

    18. Protégé

    20071h 46mR
    7.2 (6K)
    A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has started to feel loyalty to his new environment and to the money.
    DirectorDerek Tung-Sing YeeStarsAndy LauDaniel WuLouis Koo
  • The Raid 2 (2014)

    19. The Raid 2

    20142h 30mR71Metascore
    7.9 (136K)
    Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
    DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisYayan RuhianArifin Putra
  • Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jing Wu, Simon Yam, and Donnie Yen in Kill Zone (2005)

    20. Kill Zone

    20051h 33mNot Rated
    6.9 (14K)
    A near retired inspector and his unit are willing to put down a crime boss at all costs while dealing with his replacement, who is getting in their way. Meanwhile, the crime boss sends his top henchmen to put an end to their dirty schemes.
    DirectorWilson YipStarsDonnie YenSimon YamSammo Kam-Bo Hung
  • Tadanobu Asano in Ichi the Killer (2001)

    21. Ichi the Killer

    20012h 9m55Metascore
    6.9 (62K)
    As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTadanobu AsanoNao ÔmoriShin'ya Tsukamoto
  • Andy Lau and Donnie Yen in Chasing the Dragon (2017)

    22. Chasing the Dragon

    20172h 8m
    6.7 (4.8K)
    An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.
    DirectorsJason KwanJing WongAman ChangStarsDonnie YenAndy LauPhilip Keung
  • Sôsuke Takaoka, Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Kenta Kiritani, Takayuki Yamada, Motoki Fukami, and Hiroshi Watanabe in Crows Zero (2007)

    23. Crows Zero

    20072h 10m
    7.0 (9.3K)
    A transfer student attempts to take over the most violent high school in the country, whose students form factions and battle each other for power.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShun OguriKyôsuke YabeMeisa Kuroki
  • Sôsuke Takaoka, Shun Oguri, Kenta Kiritani, Takayuki Yamada, Yû Koyanagi, and Nobuaki Kaneko in Crows Zero II (2009)

    24. Crows Zero II

    20092h 13m
    7.2 (5.7K)
    Tension escalates and violence ensues when a young student unwittingly breaks a non-aggression pact between two rival high schools.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShun OguriKyôsuke YabeMeisa Kuroki
  • Deliver Us from Evil (2020)

    25. Deliver Us from Evil

    20201h 54m
    6.8 (7K)
    Hit-man In-Nam kills Japanese mobster, enraging vengeful brother. Ex-lover Young-joo pleads for help but dies, her daughter missing. In-Nam must decide: flee to Panama or search for girl? Paths may cross with mobster brother.
    DirectorHong Won-chanStarsHwang Jung-minLee Jung-jaePark Jeong-min

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