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TV Shows & Series: Best "yakuza" TV Shows/Series

Yakuza film (Japanese: ヤクザ映画, Hepburn: Yakuza eiga) is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood-like characters were common. Two types of yakuza films emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The Nikkatsu studio was known for modern yakuza films inspired by Hollywood gangster films, while Toei was the main producer of what is known as ninkyo eiga (仁侠映画, "chivalry films"). Set in the Meiji and Taishō eras, ninkyo eiga depict honorable outlaws torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (personal feelings). In contrast to ninkyo eiga, jitsuroku eiga (実録映画, "actual record films") based on real crime stories became popular in the 1970s. These portrayed modern yakuza not as honorable heirs to the samurai code, but as ruthless street thugs living for their own desires. ()
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Altered Carbon(2018-2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 871 votes)

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, Nick Hurran, Alex Graves, Uta Briesewitz, Andy Goddard - With Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Martha Higareda, Dichen Lachman, Chris Conner, Ato Essandoh, ...
Subscription Netflix

Giri/Haji(2019)

TV-MA
| 58min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.

Subscription Netflix

My Home Hero(2023)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Crime, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

The story centers on a salaryman who has a reliable wife and a daughter in university who can sometimes act a bit rebellious, but has a happy life in his own way. Until one day he finds out his daughter has been beaten, and thus begins his journey into a dangerous world to protect his family.

Back Street Girls -GOKUDOLS-(2018)

24min per episode | Comedy, Animation
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gave them 2 choices: honorably commit suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become "female" idols. After a gruesome year training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.

Directed by Chiaki Kon
Subscription Netflix

Stop!! Hibari-kun!(1983-1984)

25min per episode | Animation, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A teenage boy has now moved in the home of his mother's friend, because she had died a while back. It just so happens that the Yakuza family has four beautiful daughters, but one daughter, Hibari, who is more beautiful then the rest of the daughters, is actually a boy. Hibari just can't keep his hands off our hero and so their crazy yet happy lives go on.

Ikebukuro West Gate Park(2020)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Drama
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

The story revolves around 20-year-old Makoto, who frequently gets involved in highly dangerous situations, usually against his own judgment. Along for the ride are his best buddies Shun, Masa, and Takashi, the enigmatic leader of a local gang in Ikebukuro.

Directed by Tomoaki Koshida

The Way of the Househusband(2021)

TV-MA
| 17min per episode | Animation, Comedy
4.4/5 (with 132 votes)

Tatsu, a notorious and feared yakuza leader nicknamed "The Immortal Dragon," withdraws from the criminal syndicate and becomes a housekeeper to help his wife, Miku. The series features a variety of comedic settings, typically showing Tatsu's domestic activities and intimidating inequality with his looks, as well as multiple encounters with his former colleagues and rivals in the Japanese Criminal Syndicate.

Subscription Netflix

The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting(2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Kirishima Tooru is as vicious a yakuza as they come, to the point where he's earned the nickname "the Demon of Sakuragi." To get him under control, he's suddenly given a new mission straight from the boss—to babysit his daughter!

Tiger and Dragon(2005)

TV-14
| 46min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets.

Ikebukuro West Gate Park(2000)

TV-MA
| 46min per episode | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto has become a member of a youth gang called the G-Boys. Known for his cool head and ability to get things done, Makoto becomes a key troubleshooter for the gang by diffusing tense situations and keeping his friends out of harm's way. However, the death of his girlfriend and an escalating turf war with a rival gang threaten to be more than Makoto can handle.

Overlord: Blood Genealogy(2018)

NR
| 5h 50min per episode | Crime, Action & Adventure

When a mafia leader is killed, his son and the deadliest assassin in the mafia compete in order to be the new leader.

Hinamatsuri(2018)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 48 votes)

One night, a strange object falls on the head of Nitta, a member of the yakuza. Inside the box is a strange young girl named Hina. She has tremendous supernatural powers, and Nitta finds himself reluctantly taking her in. Her powers can come in handy for his yakuza business, but he also runs the risk of her using them on him! Not to mention, if she doesn't use her powers, she will eventually go berserk and destroy everything around her. Nitta and Hina's strange life together is just beginning...

Directed by Kei Oikawa
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Ouroboros(2015)

55min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When their favorite teacher, Yuiko, is murdered, a policeman wearing a gold watch covers up the incident. Ikuo and Tatsuya promise each other to avenge their teacher someday. Twenty years later, Ikuo is a detective in Shinjuku second police station investigating various cases with elite detective - Mizuki, while smart and handsome Tatsuya has become one of the top members of a gang group.

Wounded Angels(1974-1975)

Action & Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like gangsters) try to make ends meet on the mean streets of Tokyo.

The Way of the Househusband(2020)

TV-PG
| Comedy
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

An infamous yakuza sets out to master the Way of the Househusband! "The Immortal Dragon"—an infamous and feared yakuza who has left behind countless legends in the underworld—has decided to wash his hands of his dark past and become… a "househusband"! Under the watchful eye of the neighborhood, the yakuza, and the police, witness this gangster-turned-husband's style of "justice and family love." A thrilling slapstick drama where the ultimate househusband faces struggles from every side! Can Tatsu protect his beloved family and neighborhood when they are caught up in an incident?

Dance Till Tomorrow(1991)

TV-MA
| Animation, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Suekichi goes to university and has, as any Japanese university student, time for hobbies. Things change when he attends his great grandfather's funeral and wakes the next morning in his room with a very sexy girl besides him. His great grandfather has left him a *little* inheritance but there are some conditions. Meanwhile, sexy Aya keeps hanging around and refuses to go away. The beginning of a strange relationship which revolves around suspicions and desire.

A Foreign Love Affair(2007-2008)

28min per episode | Animation, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The young leader of the Oomi group, Ranmaru, was forced to marry Kaoru, the daughter from another group. The couple went to Italy, and had their wedding on a ship. However, neither of them actually liked the marriage, and Ranmaru was kicked out by his newlywed wife Kaoru on their first night. Al (Alberto), an Italian man on the ship, took an interest in Ranmaru, and the story revolves around the romance between the two men, Ranmaru and Al.

Kurohyō: Ryū ga Gotoku Shinshō(2010-2012)

Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Smoking(2018)

24min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.

Subscription Netflix

Kei x Yaku: Dangerous Partners(2022)

43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Three years ago, a disappearance case, known as the "Joker Case," was suddenly closed without being solved. Ichiro Kunishita, an investigator from the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who was called for a reunion of the investigation, is ordered to take on a completely different mission. He is assigned to spy on and monitor Shiro Hanabusa, the young head of a designated gang clan. He is said to be a man of many mysteries who has risen to the rank of Wakagashira (young leading subordinate in yakuza group) since he joined the gang three years ago. In the course of his mission to get close to Shiro, Ichirou learns a shocking fact, and decides to make a fake "lover's contract" with him. Their secret investigation into the case gradually leads them to an incident that will shake the nation and their destiny.

Nihon Yakuza Kososhi(2014)

1h 20min per episode | Crime, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Legendary yakuza actors Hakuryu and Hitoshi Ozawa star in this epic series where money, power, and brutality fuel turf wars across the land.

Like a Dragon Poem of Soul(2016)

Crime, Drama

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