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The yakuza is populated almost entirely by men and the very few women who are acknowledged are the wives of bosses, who are referred to by the title ane-san (姐さん, older sister). When the 3rd Yamaguchi-gumi boss (Kazuo Taoka) died in the early 1980s, his wife (Fumiko) took over as boss of Yamaguchi-gumi, albeit for a short time.
In an unnamed American city, one of the men working for a dangerous Yakuza boss known as Akira Tanaka steals a statuette that Tanaka had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakuza and a rival Chinese tong.
American Yakuza is a 1993 American crime film directed by Frank Cappello and starring Viggo Mortensen, Ryo Ishibashi, Michael Nouri, Franklyn Ajaye, Yuji Okumoto, Anzu Lawson, and Robert Forster. The screenplay by John Allen Nelson and Max Strom is based on a story by executive producer Takashige Ichise. [ 2 ]
Dangerous Men is a 2005 American action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, under the pseudonym John S. Rad. [1] [2] The film took twenty-one years to make and release, production beginning in 1984 and edits being made throughout the intervening years.
Hunter, on the other hand, having been raised in Japan, has a strong understanding of the yakuza and their mysterious, eccentric and sinister ways. Hunter and Mack discover a plan by Kuroda, the boss of a new yakuza outfit, to build an enormous drug-dealing network using his export company in cahoots with a Chinese Triad outfit leader named Chen.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara adapts a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō.
He becomes attracted to the dangerous lifestyle of the yakuza while in prison, eventually working his way up to becoming the patriarch of a yakuza clan. Kippei Shiina as Orochi, a member of the Shiromatsu clan who becomes envious of Nick as he not only gains the trust of his sworn brother Kiyoshi, but also the love of his ex-girlfriend Miyu. He ...
Cops vs. Thugs (県警対組織暴力, Kenkei tai Soshiki Bōryoku, lit."Police vs. Violence Groups") is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.It won two Blue Ribbon Awards in 1976: Best Director (Fukasaku) and Best Actor (Sugawara). [1]