Ah, Wilderness (2017)

Ah, both of this Japaneses movie has a main lead that wasn’t boxer before, was weak, was looser, and struggling. After tough training, lost in fight, became boxer

I kept thinking about Double Mints when I was watching this. The same brilliantly executed desperation and melodrama that's the beauty of both films while being intense and jarringly violent. The relationship Shinji (Suda Masaki) has with Barikan (Yang Ik Jun) or with his ex gangster boss had the same undertones of Fuchikami Yasushi and Tanaka Shunsuke's relationships in Double Mints.

Again, the relationships between the characters is similar and both deliver the same punch of gritty darkness though Grasshopper can be a little more violent and gory.

Both films are about criminals and gray characters with heavy bromance but Zebra is extremely dark and violent, downright off putting in its violence (which I LOVED lol) and Wilderness is somewhat tamer.

Both beautiful films about people who have their own moral code and the gritty reality of their existence. Both are just perfect in my opinion.

Heavy on the bromance and just so good and melodramatic. The chemistry between the leads is excellent

Both has martial art and fight genre. Both showed how hard the main lead(s) train. The emotional as well as physical pain, make them tough, strong and determine.

Both Japanese movies’ male lead got into boxing. I haven’t watch neither. One is comedy the other one seems more serious

Both have boxing team. Both male lead had tough training, struggle, up and down in life, come to self realization, competition, physically pain, emotionally tourment.