Movies like Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
The best movies like Kaiji: Final Game (2020) are Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011), Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) and Liar Game: Reborn (2012). If Kaiji: Final Game hooked you with its action and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHigh and Low (1963)8.4/10 from 1,238 votes
- NewestBrothers Under Fire (2026)Released 2026
- In JapaneseKaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)Also in Japanese
- Same seriesKaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)Kaiji
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...
Why it matches: Same series: Kaiji · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
Why it matches: Same series: Kaiji · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLiar Game: Reborn (2012)
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
As the Gods Will (2014)
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLiar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEscape Room (2019)
Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKakegurui 2: Desperate Russian Roulette (2021)
A school appears peaceful from a distance, but a fierce gambling battle takes place once again. Yumeko Jabami is involved in the battle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Kakegurui: The Movie (2019)
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrols, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSignal 100 (2020)
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Killing Room (2009)
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisxxxHOLiC (2022)
To be free of his dark visions, Kimihiro Watanuki will work for Dimensional Witch Yūko, a mystical woman quick to help those in a bind—for a fee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Incite Mill (2010)
Drawn by the exorbitantly high hourly wage of 112,000 Japanese yen, ten men and women gather at a mansion. Everyone thinks the simple psychology experiment will get them some quick cash... until one of them winds up dead. The participants are overcome with frenzied suspicion. Various deadly weapons are left in their rooms and they are killed off one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFermat's Room (2007)
Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTable No. 21 (2013)
A couple live a mediocre life and are thrilled to have won an exotic vacation to Fiji & their excitement increases when they get a chance to play "Tell all truth" game for a mind boggling prize money. The game begins and the couple discovers that the game isn't really a game, but is a game of survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this1-Ichi (2003)
In this prequel we witness the teenage roots of Ichi's manic-depressive beginnings and the origins of his monster-sized kicks and his anger, his psychological, as well as physical, beatings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEscape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInitial D Legend 2: Racer (2015)
The leader of rival group Myogi NightKids, Takeshi, wants to challenge the now infamous Takumi in a race down Akina. As Takumi questions his identity as a racer, he discovers that, behind the wheel, there’s more to lose than just a simple race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Most Dangerous Game (2022)
A father and son are shipwrecked on a remote island where they are caught up in a trophy hunt held by its mysterious owner, a merciless man who uses the land as an elite hunting preserve for stalking the most dangerous game of all: human.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
A Peephole (2014)
Tatsuhiko Kido is a young man who moved from Tokyo to attend a vocational school. Although he thought he had begun his new school life with no problem, he finds a hole in his wall, and sometimes he feels a gaze coming at him from that hole, so he can't relax. The night he went drinking with his classmate Yoneyama, he sees a light coming from the same hole when he comes home. When he tries calling out to the other side, he gets a reply...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Would You Rather (2013)
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Precipice Game (2017)
Liu Chenchen, a free-spirited young woman, rebels against her wealthy family and elopes with her boyfriend to join a cruise-bond treasure hunt. But what began as an innocent game with promises of great reward soon turns into a battle for survival when the contestants are thrown into a mysterious world of intrigue and chaos in the middle of the sea. Liu relies only on her wits and her new friends to survive, all the while unmasking foes and learning that nothing is what it seems. But as her companions are attacked one by one, Liu must do everything she can to escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCircle (2015)
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInitial D: Third Stage (2001)
With high school graduation right around the corner, Takumi Fujiwara has a lot on his mind and a lot to prepare for. Everything becomes even more complicated when Takumi is offered a spot on Ryosuke Takahashi's elite Kengai Racing Team, which seeks to assemble the greatest racers in the Gunma area for a tour of Japan's mountain passes. Before he can accept however, Takumi feels the need to settle the score with the Lancer Evo driving Emperor team, defend his downhill-racer crown against the son of his father's greatest rival, and finally settle things with his unfaithful girlfriend Natsuki.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattle Royale (2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse of 9 (2005)
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Promised Neverland (2020)
A number of children are being well fed, taken care of, and pampered at a very meticulate and managed orphanage. The facility and grounds are impressive, but the wall acting as a barrier is high. There is a secret to the place and once revealed to several orphans, they're desperate to escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrothers Under Fire (2026)
Captain Jordan Wright's squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel. As Jordan tries to lead survivors to safety, war erupts between his squad and the cartel, forcing him into a battle to save his men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHigh and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDeath Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOverdrive (2017)
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Kaiji: Final Game?
The closest matches to Kaiji: Final Game are Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011), Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) and Liar Game: Reborn (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Kaiji: Final Game?
People who watched Kaiji: Final Game most often go on to Liar Game: Reborn (2012), As the Gods Will (2014) and Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Kaiji: Final Game?
High and Low (1963), rated 8.4/10 by 1,238 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Kaiji: Final Game?
Brothers Under Fire (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Kaiji: Final Game part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Kaiji, which includes Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011) and Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009).
Are there Japanese movies like Kaiji: Final Game?
Yes: Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011), Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) and Liar Game: Reborn (2012).
How are movies similar to Kaiji: Final Game chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Kaiji: Final Game, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.