
10 Best Movies Like Heat Wave
If you loved Heat Wave, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power....

Outrage
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge....

Gate of Flesh
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semb...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power a...

Sword of the Beast
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heat Wave for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....