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Movies that feel like Yakuza Princess (2021)

If you loved Yakuza Princess, the closest films we have are The Blackout (2019), Mother's Day (2023) and Bleeding Steel (2017). All three share Yakuza Princess' kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Midnight Pulp and others, checked against today's data.

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

🍅 34% Rotten Tomatoes4.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vicente Amorimkinetictensecerebral
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If Yakuza Princess hit the spot, these will too

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%6thriller · science fiction · action

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Yakuza Princess does

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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Mother's Day
2023 · dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
5.3thriller · action

Kinetic action in both cases

The difference: Missing the ideas of Yakuza Princess

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
3.7action · thriller

Tense action, and it commits to that

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

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The Flu
2013 · dir. Kim Sung-soo
🍅 33%6.6action · science fiction · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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Headshot
2016 · dir. Kimo Stamboel
🍅 73%6.3action · thriller · drama

The same preoccupation in both: amnesia

The difference: Reviewed even better

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

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Krrish
2006 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 88%6.5action · science fiction

Both lean on momentum more than on action

In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

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The Predator
2018 · dir. Shane Black
🍅 34%5.3science fiction · action · thriller

Both sit in the same cerebral register

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%6.3science fiction · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
6.3thriller · action

Both are action through and through

Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?

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Self/less
2015 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 18%6.5science fiction · action · thriller

Both play action straight

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

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