Moon Birds Guide To Great Asian Gangster Movies

[Moon Bird]

I don't collect much. No action figures, trading cards, funko pops or whatever the hell it is people collect these days. But one thing I do collect is Asian crime movies on DVD/Blu-ray/4k

So here is a list of movies I highly recommend if you like such things or are looking to dip your toes...

Drunken Angel (1948)
Detective Bureau 2-3 : Go To Hell Bastards! (1963)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Tattooed Life (1965)
Youth Of The Beast (1963)
Branded To Kill (1967)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Violent Cop (1989)
Boiling Point (1990)
Score (1995)
Rainy Dog (1997)
Outrage (2010)
Beyond Outrage (2012)
Outrage Coda (2017)
Drug War (2012)
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
New World (2013)
Exiled (2006)
Election (2005)
Election 2 [Triad Election] (2006)
Nameless Gangster (2012)
The Gangster The Cop And The Devil (2019)
Asura : City Of Madness (2016)

I'll add more and some pictures and stuff when I have time

 

[Zany Clowny]

I'm really glad to see Rainy Dog on this list. It's a lot like a Kitano film in the ways it's meditative and masculine. My suggestion would be Full Contact, a Ringo Lam production.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Vengeance Is Mine was crazy good. I watched that on a whim one night, did not regret it.