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Yakuza film (Japanese: ヤクザ映画, Hepburn: Yakuza eiga) is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood -like characters were common.
"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] Complex named it number 6 on their list of The 25 Best Yakuza Movies. [2] Kino International released the film on DVD in North America in 2006. [3]
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.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai), also known in the West as The Yakuza Papers, is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō ...
A man named Ichi stands on a balcony, masturbating while spying on a pimp raping and assaulting a prostitute.When the pimp discovers him, he flees. Sadistic yakuza boss Anjo is murdered. A cleaning crew run by Jijii removes all traces of Anjo's death and credits Ichi for the murder. Later, Kakihara, Anjo's sadomasochistic high-ranking enforcer, visits
Masaki is a shiftless, inattentive young man who is a member of a losing local baseball team managed by Mr. Iguchi, a former yakuza, whose coach is threatened and attacked by a local yakuza. He teams up with a friend to go to Okinawa to purchase guns so they can get revenge. A psychotic yakuza member named Uehara befriends them upon their ...
The writer originally planned an opening scene where Yamanaka is humiliated after being nearly raped in prison, beginning his killing spree. But Minō was against it, something Kasahara chalked up to the fact that Mitsuji Yamagami was still revered among some of the yakuza, and it was removed with the writer believing the characterization ...
In film the word is often associated with yakuza films [3] and the use of sex and violence. Various films, including films by Takashi Miike , [ 4 ] include the word in their titles [ 5 ] but it is difficult to assert it is a genre or subgenre.