Recommend me a good violent Japanese film.

MEN BEHIND THE SUN (1988)...HAS MANY SEQUELS TOO.IT MAY BE CHINESE,BUT ITS ABOUT JAPANESE.


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OH OH OH...JAPANESE AND FUCKING DISTURBING....GUINEA PIG:FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD (1985)...THE SECONDINSTALLMENT IS WORSE SOMEHOW🤯

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The Ring was pretty rad. Different enough from the American remake to keep it interesting, certainly.

Outrage and Beyond Outrage are very good.

Could try the Outsider with Jared Leto.

Dude....check out Versus from 2000.
Also, Riki Oh.

How violent do you want it? Does it have to be violent on the same scale as the ones you mentioned?

If so, I would strongly recommend the "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" (Jingi Naki Tatakai) series from the 1970s. I think it had five movies in total. It's a yakuza gangster story set in postwar Hiroshima, based on actual gang wars in the 1940s and 50s. And yeah, pretty bloody, perhaps as much as the ones you mentioned. I think it's at least as bloody as Battle Royale. Btw it’s directed by Fukasaku Kinji, who also directed Battle Royale.

So, that series merited a special mention both because it’s pretty violent and because I think they’re good movies, but here below is a general list of some yakuza movies that I think fit the bill. I won’t take the time to describe each one in detail because that would take a while, plus I don't remember all of them that well. Some are more violent than others. The ones directed by Fukasaku, of which there are a few in my list (mostly 1970s ones), can reliably be assumed to be pretty violent. He was opposed to romanticizing portrayals of the yakuza and wanted to show the gang world in all its gritty ugliness and cruelty.

Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Street Mobster (1972)
Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Branded to Kill (1967)
Sonatine (1993)
The Wolves (1971)
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Cops vs Thugs (1975)
Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Tattooed Life (1965)
Boiling Point (1990)

Alright so, those are the gangster movies I can recommend, though there are about a zillion more I haven’t even seen and probably some that I've forgotten altogether.

Having gotten gangster movies out of the way, let’s turn to samurai movies.

Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
Any of the approximately 436794367929 movies about Zatoichi the blind swordsman, many of which are pretty entertaining and often funny.
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Any of the many movies about the 47 Ronin, most of which are appropriately titled with some variation on “The 47 Ronin”
Samurai Assassin (1965)

Hmm, what else…

I think you might like “13 Assassins” (2010), which is a pretty violent action movie.

Lady Snowblood (1973), Japanese title Shura Yukihime, would be right up your alley I think. Pretty violent. Big inspiration for Quentin Tarantino too (he even used music from this movie in Kill Bill).

Then there's another Shura Yukihime (2001), which is kind of very loosely inspired by the one I mentioned above although it's pretty different in most respects, which is an action movie set in a post-apocalyptic world where everybody’s using swords again. The story and writing aren’t exactly Citizen Kane but a fun enough movie if you just want some action. I like it. Official English title The Princess Blade, which is a bit of a stretch IMO.

Tsumetai Nettaigyo or Cold Fish (2010) is a pretty gory horror movie about a psychopath who does some pretty fucked up shit. If you want bloody violence, well, you’ll find it here.

Chakushin Ari or One Missed Call (2003) is a horror movie which is kinda violent. I thought it was a good movie. It’s been ages since I last saw it though.

Versus (2000) is an action movie which I didn’t like much (I just thought it was dumb), but it’s violent.

Um let’s see… There’s a series of three movies from the 1970s called Mushukunin Mikogami no Jōkichi (無宿人御子神の丈吉). I can’t remember their English titles, but they can definitely be found with English subtitles. The series is basically about a swordsman out for revenge against gangsters who destroyed his family in Edo-period Japan. I thought they were entertaining.

That’s about all I can think of for now. I don’t generally seek out really violent movies though so there’s plenty more to find, lots of them more violent than many of the ones I mentioned here. Though some of the ones I mentioned are pretty violent, especially the yakuza ones.

Cold Fish (10)
I second this pick...brutal