Movies like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~ (2009)
The best movies like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~ (2009) are Beast (2026), Jigen Daisuke (2023) and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973). If Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~ hooked you with its drama and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)7.6/10 from 534 votes
- NewestBeast (2026)Released 2026
- In JapaneseJigen Daisuke (2023)Also in Japanese
Beast (2026)
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJigen Daisuke (2023)
Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharu’s shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization that’s after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSister Street Fighter (1974)
Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKnuckle Girl (2023)
Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Long (2017)
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoemon (2009)
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban, Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003)
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Full Bloom (2019)
Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arranged by their unscrupulous managers and the Yakuza.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Challenge (1982)
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWalkaway Joe (2020)
A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home when he meets Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he'd rather forget, who feels responsible for Dallas' safety and reluctantly takes him in.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Back Down: No Surrender (2016)
Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon of Legend, hatches a plot to plunge the world into an eternal night of the full moon. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippou must reunite to confront the new menace.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIron Jawed Angels (2004)
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaboo (1999)
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Blood (2014)
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisIntroducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Black Book (2023)
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
When Shao Kahn's Outworld barbarians terrorize Earthrealm, Lord Raiden is determined to put an end to the carnage once and for all. This leaves one option: a final Mortal Kombat tournament for the future of Earthrealm – win it or lose everything. Raiden's elite fighters Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and a few new faces kick the action into overdrive as they go head-to-head with Outworld's most bloodthirsty warriors. But deep in the Netherrealm, an unspeakable scheme by the malevolent Shinnok unfolds, threatening to obliterate existence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSukeban Octopus Pot (2008)
Reiko Sasori, Boss of the Starlight Squids is released from jail after a sentence for an attempt on Boss Muraco's life, She meets up with her sisters and returns to her previous life as Sukeban, but sees that things have changed in her absence. Reiko's girlfriend from jail is released and joins her in her new life...but what part does she play in the puzzle? Will happiness prevail or will Reiko never forget a grudge?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama
Yankee High School Girls’ Road to National Domination 3 Chiba Edition (2015)
Tsubasa, the leader of a motorcycle gang in Chiba, must fight to protect her high school sister.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama
Yankee High School Girls' Road to National Domination 4 Ibaraki Edition (2016)
A former motorcycle gang leader comes back to her hometown and fight against the new local gangsters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama
Hana no Asuka-gumi! Shin Kabukichō Story (1987)
Based on the popular girl's manga Hana no Asukagumi! (The Glorious Asuka Gang!) by Takaguchi Satosumi.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & action
Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale (1990)
The story of Kuraku Asuka, a tough junior high student who gets involved with the gang scene in the Kabuki Chou Ichibangai, a rough area of Tokyo. Second OVA of "Hana no Asuka-gumi!" based on the popular girl's manga Hana no Asukagumi! (The Glorious Asuka Gang!) by Takaguchi Satosumi.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & action
13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats (1975)
Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to escape and take revenge?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama
Yankee High School Girl 9 ~Nagano's Strongest Legend~ (2012)
Kibougahara Girls' Academy is a rehabilitation institution for delinquent high school girls. The principal, Sakaki (Shinra Bansho), boasts that he has "rehabilitated 4,000 delinquents in the past," but the reality is that the school is a hellish place where sexual abuse of students is rampant. Chihiro (Nishina Momoka) enters the school alone. Her goal is to rescue her best friend, Misuzu (Yume Kana), from the school... One after another , Chihiro is assailed by a number of dark desires and traps. Will Chihiro be able to rescue Misuzu from her sexual hell? The ninth installment of the smash hit series, featuring popular J-cup sexy idol Nishina Momoka! Don't miss this shocking production, co-starring with the famous Yume Kana! Yoroshiku!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Yankee High School Girl 4 ~Chiba's Strongest Legend~ (2010)
When her boyfriend leaves Chiba for Tokyo, Rin must take his place as leader of the motorcycle gang and fight their rivals.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Yankee High School Girl 5 ~Gunma's Strongest Legend~ (2011)
Hokuto Girls' Academy is a den of unruly delinquents from all over the country. A girl has come to bring peace and order to the dilapidated school by defeating the "Three Crows" who rule it! Her name is Juri (Jessica Kizaki). Having singlehandedly annihilated the "Kanzaki Group" and avenged the grudge of her beloved lover, she is feared as "Juri the Crusher" and has entered the school alone to make a deal... The heroine of the fifth installment of the extremely popular series is Jessica Kizaki! She's ready to fight, but she's also a brawler!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together (1983)
"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~?
The closest matches to Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~ are Beast (2026), Jigen Daisuke (2023) and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~?
Start with Beast (2026), the closest match to Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~.
What is the highest-rated movie like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~?
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021), rated 7.6/10 by 534 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~?
Beast (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~?
Yes: Jigen Daisuke (2023), Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) and Sister Street Fighter (1974).
How are movies similar to Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~ chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Yankee High School Girl 2 ~Kanagawa Legend~, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.