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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2006 film directed by Justin Lin
Kill Bill: Volume 1
2003 film by Quentin Tarantino
The Wolverine
2013 film directed by James Mangold
Bullet Train
2022 film directed by David Leitch

Taxi 2
2000 film by Gérard Krawczyk

Drunken Angel
1948 film by Akira Kurosawa

Wasabi
2001 film directed by Gérard Krawczyk

War
2007 film directed by Philip Atwell

The Punisher
1989 film directed by Mark Goldblatt

Hana-bi
Hana-bi (), released in the United States as Fireworks, is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano.

Rising Sun
1993 film by Philip Kaufman

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
2021 film directed by Robert Schwentke

Showdown in Little Tokyo
1991 film directed by Mark L. Lester

Black Rain
1989 film by Ridley Scott

Zatōichi
2003 Japanese film by Takeshi Kitano

The Raid 2
2014 film by Gareth Evans

Outrage
2010 film by Takeshi Kitano

The Yakuza
1974 film by Sydney Pollack

Thunderbolt
1995 film directed by Gordon Chan

Ichi the Killer
2001 film by Takashi Miike

Boiling Point
1990 film by Takeshi Kitano

Into the Sun
2005 American-Japanese film by Christopher Morrison

Sonatine
1993 Japanese yakuza film by Takeshi Kitano

Kate
2021 film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

Violent Cop
1989 film by Takeshi Kitano

The Killer Elite
1975 film by Sam Peckinpah

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Kenshō Yamashita

Chocolate
2008 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew

Tampopo
is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti Western.

Shinjuku Incident
2009 film by Derek Yee

Brother
2000 film directed by Takeshi Kitano

Kids Return
1996 film by Takeshi Kitano

Achilles and the Tortoise
2008 film by Takeshi Kitano

Everly
2014 film directed by Joe Lynch

Like a Dragon
2007 film by Takashi Miike
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The Challenge
1982 film by John Frankenheimer
Tekkonkinkreet
, also known as Black & White, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto, originally serialized from 1993 to 1994 in Shogakukan's manga magazine Big Comic Spirits. The story takes place in the fictional city of Takaramachi (Treasure Town) and centers on a pair of orphaned street kids – the tough, canny Black and the childish, innocent White, together known as the Cats – as they deal with yakuza attempting to take over Treasure Town.

God of Gamblers
1989 film by Wong Jing

Crying Freeman
1995 film by Christophe Gans

Takeshis'
Takeshis is a 2005 Japanese film directed, written, edited by, and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is the first film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, being followed by Glory to the Filmmaker!, and Achilles and the Tortoise.

Naked Weapon
2002 film by Ching Siu-tung

Getting Any?
1994 film by Takeshi Kitano

The Toxic Avenger Part II
1989 film by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Gozu
is a 2003 Japanese comedy horror film by Takashi Miike.
==Plot==
Ozaki (Aikawa), a mentally unstable yakuza, kills a chihuahua outside a restaurant after becoming convinced that it is actually an attack dog trained to kill gangsters. Seeing Ozaki as a security risk, the head of the Azamawari yakuza clan (Ishibashi) orders fellow underling Minami (Sone) to kill him and dispose of his body in a company depot.
Mind Game
2004 film by Masaaki Yuasa

The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 film directed by Lee Sang-yong

Beyond Outrage
2012 film by Takeshi Kitano

Branded to Kill
1967 film by Seijun Suzuki

Tokyo Drifter
1966 Japanese film

Deliver Us From Evil
2020 South Korean film

Dead or Alive 2: Birds
2000 film by Takashi Miike

No Way Back
1995 film by Frank Cappello

American Samurai
1992 film directed by Sam Firstenberg

The Machine Girl
2008 film by Noboru Iguchi

Hitman
1998 film by Stephen Wai

Gen-X Cops
1999 film by Benny Chan

Dead or Alive: Final
2002 film by Takashi Miike

Dead or Alive
1999 film by Takashi Miike

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 film by Kinji Fukasaku