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

Drunken Angel
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former bos...

Black Rain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. Howeve...

Adrift in Tokyo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo....

Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie....

The Outsider
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka....

Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shabu for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yak...