Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like Ishimatsu Rikuo in Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor, eventually leaps to his death from the top of a prison, claiming he'll be back. I'm assuming this is a reference to real life crazy Yakuza Ishikawa Rikio, whom the original Graveyard of Honor was based on. It's established that the corpse of the fierce Yakuza Ryuuji is buried in the graveyard beneath a marker with the Japanese characters "Jingi" (Honor), and then we are taken to the modern day.
Graveyard of Honor
2002
6.2/10
Rainy Dog
1997
6.7/10
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2007
6.5/10
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1996
6.6/10
Monday
2000
6.9/10
Tokyo Drifter
1966
7.1/10
Malicious
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7.1/10
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
7.3/10
The Jester 2
2025
6.3/10
Agitator
2001
6.4/10
Frank and Penelope
2022
7.2/10
The Yakuza
1974
7.1/10
Street Mobster
1972
6.8/10
Youth of the Beast
1963
6.9/10
Suburbicon
2017
5.9/10
Branded to Kill
1967
7.2/10
Blood-C: The Last Dark
2012
7.1/10
Surviving the Game
1994
6.1/10
LaRoy, Texas
2024
6.9/10
Character
2021
7.4/10
Unification of Japan Gaiden: Tamura Yuto 2
2021
0/10
