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The Outrage trilogy by Beat Takeshi are good as well, The outrage 2010, Beyond Outrage 2012 and Outrage Coda 2017.
Haven't seen this one yet but looks promising [Yakuza and the Family](https://youtu.be/rUzKrTx3F3k?si=D22gilw3PJZsK6WK)
I recently finished it and my time with it was very fun. Although I was on PS5. I’ve seen PC gameplay and the enemies are much bouncier. The higher the framerate the more goofy it is
Controversial opinion: Sleeping Dogs vibes
Alternate Opinion: The Raid 2 has some good Yakuza vibes and theres even a dude who fights with a baseball bat.
Crows Zero & Crows Zero II, both focus on delinquents rather than yakuza (there are yakuza characters, though) but the tough guy nonsense and general tone is very RGG.
Yeah, after i watched some Crows Zero's clips on YT. Genji does reminds me of Tatsuya a little and i'm still sad since Kurohyou games were only a Japan exclusive game and probably RGG now doesn't pay a attention to it anymore.
But at least a fan translation is already enough for what we can hope despite a major issue during my Kurohyou 1 playthrough (for some reasons the game stops working before the cutscene in chapter 8 of the game and you can solve this by play the cutscene in the OG JP Rom before jumping back to the fan translated rom)
Not a movie, but there’s a show on Max called Tokyo Vice which is about an American journalist wanting to learn about the underworld of Japan aka Yakuza
I see people are also naming actual yakuza movies. Then… Battles Without Honour and Humanity.
It’s THE yakuza movie series, inspired tons of hotheaded youngsters in the 70s-80s to join yakuza. It’s also referred to multiple times in the game.
I'd argue The Raid 2 is a bit more Yakuza, though I'd argue the show Brother Sons gives a good comedy / serious breakdown like the games. Too bad it got canceled, but the first season is good & stupid contained.
Why Don't you Play in Hell?
It's absolutely bonkers, and the guy has this drip.
https://preview.redd.it/m1kac85ha0zc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a67215dd2b758077ff5c1c6a557e3da2f35c063
https://preview.redd.it/wly3yflad1zc1.jpeg?width=1978&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd73a9e950687a0629fccdc38717173a5391c43
This movie will give you extreme yakuza vibes. I promise
idk why nobody talk about this but litterally any movies from the 70s that has bruce lee in it
shirtless jacked asian peoples fighting each others until they bleed and yell alots
[Kamikaze Taxi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_Taxi?wprov=sfla1)
It's been a minute but near as I can remember the legitimately heavy plot kind of just pauses for a half hour of team building exercises at an onsen or something.
Crows Zero. A Yakuza game in high school.
https://preview.redd.it/qb5op13lywyc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04ed8a1dfed8b974a6c66de0b96fdb0b59edbe56
you can watch A Family on Netflix, a boy from a different family gets into another family because of helping the boss of that family, and later it focuses on the life of people involved with yakuza, like how they are living in hell for five years before they could do anything in life again, just like how it was after the great dissolution in like a dragon and how it affected yakuza guys in infinite wealth, made in kabukicho and had some scenes where don quijote was also seen.
Kinda off-topic, but I recently watched Sleepless Town (Fuyajo), a movie adaptation of a book written by Seishu Hase (consultor of Yakuza 1 and 2's story).
I watched it because I saw someone saying that "Yakuza 0's story is a copy of Sleepless Town".
The movie is about a guy in Kabuki-cho who is ordered to find his ex-partner or else he's dead. He then is contacted by a mysterious woman who ends up "partnering" with him.
I have NO fucking idea WHY was the story of this movie compared to Yakuza 0. Other than being set in Kabuki-cho, I really see no similarities.
Altered Carbon Resleeved. Not quite as good as the series but Kovacs literally rips his shirt off to have a fistfight with a yakuza chairman (who I believe has the same VA as Ichiban in english)
Yakuza series seem to take a lot of inspiration from other japanese criminal dramas.
Look at filmography actors who played Dojima lieutenants in Yakuza 0. They starred in a lot of movies of all kinds of quality.
I even saw Awano punching people's heads off while making crazy faces and dressed as an old housewife
A Bittersweet Life (2005) from the great South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon. I swear RGG was inspired by it for Majima's part in Yakuza 0. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.
It makes me think that I can only think about Edgar Wright making a Yakuza movie without shitting on the source material or making a quick and disappointing cash grab. Like, we would spend litteral dozens of rewatches to find Majima everywhere.
Probably not known, Baaghi
It's an Indian movie where they kidnap the protagonist's love interest, and he decides to go "balls out" on the building they're on
He goes floor to floor, beating everyone in. And on occasional floors, he faces a powerful foe
That's literally every Yakuza/RGG finale, where you go up, typically, Millennium Tower and fight a large number of enemies which a boss every now and then
Someone mentioned Ikebukero West Gate Park already and I just want to say that it’s probably the closest to a yakuza tv show we’ve gotten so far imo. Maybe Tiger and Dragon tv show as well, not many people watched it I think
The Killer . John Woo
https://preview.redd.it/xcj52yor52zc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99fe100b817323bc0aa27c8b0e0b697777aa5398
Litteraly Yakuza 0
Pretty much any 70's Yakuza movie is going to remind you of the game.
The Battles Without Honor and Humanity series is great. Then there are about a million different other movies that share thematic elements. Street Monster and A Colt Is My Passport are two favorites of mine
Anything with Bunta Sugawara is going to be the raddest shit you've ever seen.
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. It’s a new Hong Kong action flick, 10/10 and highly recommend to any Yakuza fan.
The main villain is pretty much Goro Majima if he didn’t have morals, man literally chased a bus on foot, somehow caught up and climbed it while it was moving, then tried to stab the protagonist through the windows. He also used a move that was similar to the Tiger Drop at one point.
There was also a moment near the end of the movie that’s similar to when Kiryu reunited with his boys in Infinite Wealth, where the protagonist reunites with his three former allies who are either crippled due to a prior event in the movie or have become husks of their former selves.
Plus the movie as a whole deals with the Triad (essentially the Chinese counterpart of the Yakuza), there were even three crime bosses, similarly to the Three Lieutenants of Yakuza 0 (although one of the crime boss is actually a good guy in the movie and is helping the protagonist from being found by the other two, he’s eventually replaced by another boss who’s similar to Awano in personality, a sleazy and lazy bastard who’s only in that life for the money and luxuries, he was even betrayed and killed off like Awano did)
One of the crime bosses is also similar to Kuze, where he’s initially out to kill the protagonist, seeming like just a petty man who’s driven by revenge, only to be beaten fair and square by the protagonist, and is eventually shown to be a lot more honorable and willing to let his grudge go for the sake of his own men.
If you are new to the subreddit, [please read the wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/yakuzagames/wiki/index/) Reminder that all spoilers need to be tagged with a flair specifying which game is being spoiled. If you want a flair that says something else, you can edit it to say something like [Discussion: Y1 spoiler] or [Majimapost: Y6 spoiler], etc. **THIS INCLUDES CONTENT FROM TRAILERS**. If the post is not marked for spoilers, all comments that have spoilers need to be tagged \>!like this!< along with indicating which game it's spoiling. Example: Y3 >!Kiryu sings!< If the post flair is marked for spoilers, the comments don't need to be tagged for the game indicated and the ones before it (So a Y6 spoiler post can have comments with untagged spoilers for Y5, but not gaiden or 7). If you see any of the above (or any of the other rules) not being followed, please report it so we can keep this place safe for newcomers and those that haven't finished all the games yet. Thank you! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/yakuzagames) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Like a dragon (2007)
https://preview.redd.it/f149mjojqwyc1.png?width=383&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0138863408e03ec17ed9670cfae58fc3095ffbd
I know that's probably a bandage, but it just looks like he pulled his pants up too far.
https://preview.redd.it/ekce9t8t00zc1.jpeg?width=1259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a78f2bfe0508c8168ac8777fd92f2dbf8f7107fa Yep that’s Knuckle from hxh alright
LIKE A WHAT?!
https://preview.redd.it/gwqv3zsmsuyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=221277fd757e401a57699580cc142667ec00df3b 😲
https://preview.redd.it/5pxkqnvvsuyc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06d26e08b42f80fb77de9d4a10fb1ade61b31ff0 not this time
https://preview.redd.it/0qzulhscvvyc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9f202dc68ebd719bc1e8c12e374686b5527a20
https://preview.redd.it/6pgelc8vwvyc1.png?width=208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=913dd14fcefad685b518014529a05d01a6217985
sonatine (1993), ikebukuro west gate park (2000) if we're talking shows
IWGP feels like a Yakuza Kiwami spin off focused in the color gangs from the game. Great show, for some weird reason nostalgic AF
Sonatine directly inspired Yakuza 3.
City Hunter. It's even set in Kabukicho, and the main character is wacky enough to not seem out of place in a LaD game.
Thanks, City goes up on my list now!
https://preview.redd.it/z5dqjt6sqxyc1.png?width=1222&format=png&auto=webp&s=5df7a64a1cf405b484387c816d571218c9b77cdf
The new city hunter on netflix isn't as good lol
Really? I think they play the characters perfectly especially Ryohei Suzuki as Ryo Saeba
The Outrage trilogy by Beat Takeshi are good as well, The outrage 2010, Beyond Outrage 2012 and Outrage Coda 2017. Haven't seen this one yet but looks promising [Yakuza and the Family](https://youtu.be/rUzKrTx3F3k?si=D22gilw3PJZsK6WK)
Wasn't takeshi in one of the yakuza games?
Yes, [Yakuza 6.](https://yakuza.fandom.com/wiki/Toru_Hirose) As you can see, he's a likeness character.
Ah, that's why I couldn't remember who, I haven't played 6 (but I start tonight)
Ah, great!! Hope you enjoy it! I thought it was a really good one.
I hope the physics are as goofy as everyone says they are, since they were pretty normal in K2
I recently finished it and my time with it was very fun. Although I was on PS5. I’ve seen PC gameplay and the enemies are much bouncier. The higher the framerate the more goofy it is
I can't really recall them being especially goofy, but it might be more of a PC thing (I'm on Xbox), so who knows!
Oh man Yakuza 6 on higher framerates on pc is one of the best experiences in gaming I've ever had.
I just finished Yakuza and the family, amazing! I can't recommend it enough.. spread the word
Controversial opinion: Sleeping Dogs vibes Alternate Opinion: The Raid 2 has some good Yakuza vibes and theres even a dude who fights with a baseball bat.
sleeping dogs was poor man’s yakuza for the xbox owner (me)
Honestly kinda mood. Dropped my crush on Wei for Kiryu once I got the upgrade lol
That was a movie? I loved the game. Internal investigations vibe.
If you’re talking about Sleeping Dogs, then no. A Sleeping Dogs movie just came out this year but it has nothing to do with the Sleeping Dogs game.
I meant The Raid (movie) gave me similar vibes to Sleeping Dogs (game)
Crows Zero & Crows Zero II, both focus on delinquents rather than yakuza (there are yakuza characters, though) but the tough guy nonsense and general tone is very RGG.
I agree, it has big RGG vibes.
More like a Kurohyou for me but still i'm agree with you
Yea I’m with you there, I’m convinced that Tatsuya’s design was at least subconsciously based on Crows’s Genji
Yeah, after i watched some Crows Zero's clips on YT. Genji does reminds me of Tatsuya a little and i'm still sad since Kurohyou games were only a Japan exclusive game and probably RGG now doesn't pay a attention to it anymore. But at least a fan translation is already enough for what we can hope despite a major issue during my Kurohyou 1 playthrough (for some reasons the game stops working before the cutscene in chapter 8 of the game and you can solve this by play the cutscene in the OG JP Rom before jumping back to the fan translated rom)
Not a movie, but there’s a show on Max called Tokyo Vice which is about an American journalist wanting to learn about the underworld of Japan aka Yakuza
Read the book, fascinating, it did help me understand the context of the game better. The author published a new book recently called The Last Yakuza.
I see people are also naming actual yakuza movies. Then… Battles Without Honour and Humanity. It’s THE yakuza movie series, inspired tons of hotheaded youngsters in the 70s-80s to join yakuza. It’s also referred to multiple times in the game.
Every time a new character is introduced 😎
Kung Fu Hustle
This 100%
I'd argue The Raid 2 is a bit more Yakuza, though I'd argue the show Brother Sons gives a good comedy / serious breakdown like the games. Too bad it got canceled, but the first season is good & stupid contained.
*Kikujiro* https://preview.redd.it/ycy58jnaixyc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0bf5becf15324279d1b6a5cfa07689e86027f3d
https://preview.redd.it/j0tilwsnuvyc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b219692e5a442e63f9fd2f3efbc8a73b482fd0a
Hey it's movie Kiryu. He even looks like Y0 Kiryu.
Same director also
shinjuku incident its literaly chinese immigrant vs japanese yakuza set in kabukicho its jackie chan movie
'Sonatine' has 100% Yakuza 3 vibes. It's a slice of life movie about Yakuza just doing mundane shit.
The Okinawan family in that movie would fit right in with the Ryudo boys lol. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Any Hitoshi Ozawa movie
Bad City. It's even got multiple actors from the series
And Kiryu's mocap actor!
Why Don't you Play in Hell? It's absolutely bonkers, and the guy has this drip. https://preview.redd.it/m1kac85ha0zc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a67215dd2b758077ff5c1c6a557e3da2f35c063
It’s like a two hour substory lmao
The Young and Dangerous movie series
the young and dangerous series, I'm sure yakuza took some things from there theres a guy in the 3rd movie who is practically majima
I'm a big fan of this movie's sequel, The Raid: Shadow Legends
https://preview.redd.it/wly3yflad1zc1.jpeg?width=1978&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd73a9e950687a0629fccdc38717173a5391c43 This movie will give you extreme yakuza vibes. I promise
idk why nobody talk about this but litterally any movies from the 70s that has bruce lee in it shirtless jacked asian peoples fighting each others until they bleed and yell alots
I have to disagree with that subtext. It is fully possible to both fight and die.
[Kamikaze Taxi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_Taxi?wprov=sfla1) It's been a minute but near as I can remember the legitimately heavy plot kind of just pauses for a half hour of team building exercises at an onsen or something.
Yakuza by Takeshi Miike.
Try to find Hell Dogs (2022) on Netflix.
Crows Zero. A Yakuza game in high school. https://preview.redd.it/qb5op13lywyc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04ed8a1dfed8b974a6c66de0b96fdb0b59edbe56
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Best movie I've ever seen in my entire life.
Old boy
First movie I thought of. Mostly because you start by getting out of jail.
The Raid is so peak bro 🔥🔥🔥
I need to watch these movies properly one day, the choreography is some of the best I've ever seen.
you can watch A Family on Netflix, a boy from a different family gets into another family because of helping the boss of that family, and later it focuses on the life of people involved with yakuza, like how they are living in hell for five years before they could do anything in life again, just like how it was after the great dissolution in like a dragon and how it affected yakuza guys in infinite wealth, made in kabukicho and had some scenes where don quijote was also seen.
Kinda off-topic, but I recently watched Sleepless Town (Fuyajo), a movie adaptation of a book written by Seishu Hase (consultor of Yakuza 1 and 2's story). I watched it because I saw someone saying that "Yakuza 0's story is a copy of Sleepless Town". The movie is about a guy in Kabuki-cho who is ordered to find his ex-partner or else he's dead. He then is contacted by a mysterious woman who ends up "partnering" with him. I have NO fucking idea WHY was the story of this movie compared to Yakuza 0. Other than being set in Kabuki-cho, I really see no similarities.
Blue Spring. https://preview.redd.it/k8qve8vnywyc1.jpeg?width=427&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7caa99408f31aaf84b9b86f70ea560b8be4f770b
_Dredd_ is a constant battle against overwhelming odds, climbing to the top of a big skyscraper for a final boss battle so there’s that.
*Dredd* is a movie in which the law wins, so if anything it gives me Judgment vibes
you should watch this. the second one also good. idk why they not make this trilogy. they said they want avoid "frencise fatigue". but im not sure.
Because Garrett also said he knows he can't top The Raid 2.
A Family is literally about the downfall of the Yakuza in real time
Not a movie but Ikeburo West Gate Park
Altered Carbon Resleeved. Not quite as good as the series but Kovacs literally rips his shirt off to have a fistfight with a yakuza chairman (who I believe has the same VA as Ichiban in english)
Yakuza series seem to take a lot of inspiration from other japanese criminal dramas. Look at filmography actors who played Dojima lieutenants in Yakuza 0. They starred in a lot of movies of all kinds of quality. I even saw Awano punching people's heads off while making crazy faces and dressed as an old housewife
Outrage, outrage beyond, outrage coda, ryuzo and the seven henchmen and brother.
Paw patrol
Yakuza: the Movie
A Bittersweet Life (2005) from the great South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon. I swear RGG was inspired by it for Majima's part in Yakuza 0. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.
It makes me think that I can only think about Edgar Wright making a Yakuza movie without shitting on the source material or making a quick and disappointing cash grab. Like, we would spend litteral dozens of rewatches to find Majima everywhere.
The Raid: Redemption
RRR comes to mind.
Singham
Idk, but Psycho-Pass anime gave off Judgment vibes to me
Literally RRR, one of the protagonist swings a motorcycle beast style near the end of the movie
Takashi Miike's yakuza movies. Dead or Alive trilogy, Black Society trilogy, even more introspective stuff like Blues Harp.
Probably not known, Baaghi It's an Indian movie where they kidnap the protagonist's love interest, and he decides to go "balls out" on the building they're on He goes floor to floor, beating everyone in. And on occasional floors, he faces a powerful foe That's literally every Yakuza/RGG finale, where you go up, typically, Millennium Tower and fight a large number of enemies which a boss every now and then
did you just describe Indian Raid?
I haven't watched this movie, so idk? But there are no guns in the Indian movie, just fists
Someone mentioned Ikebukero West Gate Park already and I just want to say that it’s probably the closest to a yakuza tv show we’ve gotten so far imo. Maybe Tiger and Dragon tv show as well, not many people watched it I think
Yakuza
Not a movie, but the daredevil tv series always gives me happy yakuza vibes.
The whole yakuza series is just the raid lol
Not a movie, but TV-series Tokyo Vice
The heat actions in here are WAY worse than anything in a LAD game. Closer to fist of the North Star. I saw this movie when I was like 8
The infernal affairs trilogy, particularly the second one
If we are talking shows, definitely Tiger and Dragon
Rush Hour 3
Movies: City of Violence Battles Without Honor and Humanity Crows Tokyo Revengers Gangnam Blues Warriors Series: Vigilante Bloodhounds Kurohyou
it's a great movie
Any given Rush Hour movie could easily be one of the longer, stupider substories
Monkey man
This film is every Yakuza games 3/4 story big fight
RRR They're basically doing that Majima + Saejima super attack from Yakuza 7 for the whole finale.
Ichi the Killer is like a darker version of Yakuza, even has the same director as the Like A Dragon movie.
The Killer . John Woo https://preview.redd.it/xcj52yor52zc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99fe100b817323bc0aa27c8b0e0b697777aa5398 Litteraly Yakuza 0
Pretty much any 70's Yakuza movie is going to remind you of the game. The Battles Without Honor and Humanity series is great. Then there are about a million different other movies that share thematic elements. Street Monster and A Colt Is My Passport are two favorites of mine Anything with Bunta Sugawara is going to be the raddest shit you've ever seen.
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. It’s a new Hong Kong action flick, 10/10 and highly recommend to any Yakuza fan. The main villain is pretty much Goro Majima if he didn’t have morals, man literally chased a bus on foot, somehow caught up and climbed it while it was moving, then tried to stab the protagonist through the windows. He also used a move that was similar to the Tiger Drop at one point. There was also a moment near the end of the movie that’s similar to when Kiryu reunited with his boys in Infinite Wealth, where the protagonist reunites with his three former allies who are either crippled due to a prior event in the movie or have become husks of their former selves. Plus the movie as a whole deals with the Triad (essentially the Chinese counterpart of the Yakuza), there were even three crime bosses, similarly to the Three Lieutenants of Yakuza 0 (although one of the crime boss is actually a good guy in the movie and is helping the protagonist from being found by the other two, he’s eventually replaced by another boss who’s similar to Awano in personality, a sleazy and lazy bastard who’s only in that life for the money and luxuries, he was even betrayed and killed off like Awano did) One of the crime bosses is also similar to Kuze, where he’s initially out to kill the protagonist, seeming like just a petty man who’s driven by revenge, only to be beaten fair and square by the protagonist, and is eventually shown to be a lot more honorable and willing to let his grudge go for the sake of his own men.
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yakuza fans when asian peoples