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Seeing Ozaki as a security risk, the head of the Azamawari yakuza clan (Ishibashi) [4] orders fellow underling Minami (Sone) to kill him [5] and dispose of his body in a company depot. Minami, reluctant to murder Ozaki, unwittingly kills him when he pushes him to the ground in an attempt to stop him from killing an innocent woman who he mistook ...
Midnight Horror School (Japanese: ミッドナイトホラースクール) is a Japanese anime series created by Naomi Iwata (who also created Pecola and Gregory Horror Show), [1] and produced by Milky Cartoon. [2] The series began in October 2003 until March 2004, and aired on the satellite network Animax.
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.
At the time of the collection's launch, only Yakuza 3 was available; Yakuza 4 was released on October 29, 2019, and Yakuza 5 was released on February 11, 2020. A physical release containing all three games was released alongside Yakuza 5 with a collectible PlayStation 3 styled case for Yakuza 5 , which was initially a digital-only release in ...
The name yakuza originates from the traditional Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. If the sum of the cards is 10 or more, the second digit is the score.
His 2001 horror film Ichi the Killer, adapted from a manga of the same name and starring Tadanobu Asano as a sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer, was highly controversial; during its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the audience received "barf bags" emblazoned with the film's logo as a promotional gimmick. [12]
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.
Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese: 深作 欣二, Hepburn: Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking", [1] Fukasaku worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976).