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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 (Japanese: ミッドナイト) is a 2024 Japanese short live-action film based on the manga series of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. It was directed by Takashi Miike . The short film was released on Apple's Youtube channel free of charge on March 6, 2024.
Hidenori Shoji (庄司 英徳, Shōji Hidenori) is a Japanese video game composer who has contributed to such Sega titles as Fighting Vipers 2 (1998) and F-Zero GX (2003). He is best known for his work as the music director of the Yakuza series and its Judgment spin-off series.
The word "minbo" is a contraction of minji kainyū bōryoku (民事介入暴力), literally translated as "violent intervention in civil affairs". It was a technique utilized by the yakuza following the crackdown of traditionally "victimless" crimes of drugs, gambling, and prostitution in the early 1980s, and exploited the Japanese reluctance towards confrontation in order to "gently extort ...
Ishimatsu lives a yakuza lifestyle in an extreme manner. When he is ordered to murder another yakuza from another family in a public club, he accepts his orders. He knows that the public execution will lead to his arrest and prosecution for murder, which he knowingly accepts as part of his perceived understanding of the yakuza code of honor.
The Hoodlum Soldier (兵隊やくざ, Heitai Yakuza) is a Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. [1] The Hoodlum Soldier was the first of a series of nine films that followed two soldiers, Kisaburo Omiya (Shintaro Katsu), a former yakuza who has become a soldier, and Arita (Takahiro Tamura), an intellectual from a good family who has deliberately failed the officer examination.
The Brazilian-Japanese criminal Mario hijacks a helicopter and uses a machine gun to attack a prison bus and free his Chinese girlfriend Kei. They attempt to raise money by robbing a cockfight but end up robbing drugs bought by the yakuza Fushimi of the Okayama Group from a Chinese triad boss named Ko moments before. Fushimi's boss demands his ...
Junk (Japanese: JUNK 死霊狩り, Hepburn: Junk Shiryōgari, lit."Junk Zombie Hunter") is a 2000 Japanese horror film written and directed by Atsushi Muroga.A blend of the yakuza and zombie film genres, Junk stars Kaori Shimamura as Saki, a member of a group of jewel thieves. [1]