If you loved The Black Swindler, try The City of Lost Souls

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The Black Swindler

2008 · dir. Yasuharu Ishii

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Theyboth carry the outsider, raw mood tags, and they sit in Action / Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Black Swindler, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The City of Lost Souls is

You smuggle a woman into Tokyo's underworld and then a Russian mobster demands a hefty price for escape. The film leaves him entangled in crime.

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