If you loved XX: Beautiful Killing Machine, try American Yakuza

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to XX: Beautiful Killing Machine, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What American Yakuza is

Port warehouses. Crack of dawn. Distant foghorns. Fresh out of prison, Nick takes a job with a Japanese crime family, saves a life, and swears an oath. Turns out, Nick's an undercover Fed, caught between two warring mobs. Cappello’s lurid crime-thriller plays best as a hard-boiled VHS artifact.

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