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...
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The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith. The screenplay by...
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Yakuza (Japanese: ヤクザ, IPA: [jaꜜkɯdza]; English: /jəˈkuːzə, ˈjækuːzə/), also known as gokudō (極道, "the extreme path", IPA: [gokɯꜜdoː]), are members of...
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inspired by yakuza films and pre-millennial Japanese crime dramas. The most frequently featured protagonist is Kazuma Kiryu, a reformed yakuza associated...
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Japan and members thereof. Yakuza may also refer to: The Yakuza, a 1974 film by Sydney Pollack Yakuza Fury a 2005 video game and part of the Simple series...
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Japanese: 龍が如く 劇場版, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku: Gekijōban, lit. "Like a Dragon: The Movie"), is a 2007 Japanese crime film directed...
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American Yakuza is a 1993 American crime film directed by Frank Cappello and starring Viggo Mortensen, Ryo Ishibashi, Michael Nouri, Franklyn Ajaye, Yuji...
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Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (ニンジャバットマン対ヤクザリーグ, Ninja Batman vs. Yakuza League) is an upcoming American-Japanese animated superhero film directed by Junpei...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (redirect from Yakuza Papers: Battle Without Honor and Humanity (film))
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...
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romanized: Koroshiya Ichi, lit. 'Hitman One') is a 2001 Japanese horror yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike, written by Sakichi Sato, and starring Tadanobu...
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are yakuza criminals, recognizable by their irezumi tattoos. Nick saves a yakuza named Kiyoshi from being hanged to death; the Shiromatsu, a yakuza clan...
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Yakuza Apocalypse (極道大戦争, Gokudō Daisensō) is a 2015 Japanese action fantasy–yakuza vampire film directed by Takashi Miike and starring Hayato Ichihara...
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Philippines and several European countries. During a shootout against Japanese yakuza at a San Francisco dock warehouse, FBI agents John Crawford and Tom Lone...
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Freed by Franco, Punisher aids him in rescuing Franco's son from the yakuza. The film had a troubled release as New World Pictures had financial issues....
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Kunimura. The film follows Kate (Winstead), an assassin, whose mentor and handler (Harrelson) assigns her to kill a high-ranking yakuza boss. During Kate's...
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Shimaki as Yakuza Boss (yakuza no bosu) Ken'ichi Chūjō as Atsu (yakuza) Rintarō Nishi as Senior yakuza (Aniki. lit. "brother". A term used by yakuza to refer...
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Hepburn: Sonachine) is a 1993 Japanese yakuza film directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film. It won numerous awards and became...
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kidnappers and are taking him and the briefcase to his father, a Russian-born Yakuza crime lord called "The White Death". During the trip, The Son is killed...
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Yakuza Princess is a 2021 Brazilian action thriller film directed by Vicente Amorim, with an screenplay by Amorim, Fernando Toste, Kimi Lee and Tubaldini...
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by Kitano and also the only such film in which he starred. Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and...
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2010 Japanese yakuza film written, directed, co-edited and starring Takeshi Kitano. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. It...
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The film's plot follows a traditional theme, with Zatoichi (a blind swordsman) coming to the defense of townspeople caught up in a local yakuza gang...
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agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza. Tony Schiena as Darc, the main protagonist of the movie, he is a brutal...
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Miko's death and in guarding Yumi from the yakuza by supplying him with two metal suitcases of weapons. The yakuza try to attack Yumi in an arcade, but Florentini...
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Yakuza 3 (Japanese: 龍が如く3, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku 3, "Like a Dragon 3") is the third main entry in the Like a Dragon series, released for the PlayStation...
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the film, a nameless prisoner, a nameless female and her Yakuza abductors fend off zombies in a forest that resurrects the dead while the Yakuza's mysterious...
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debts. She is trapped by yakuza member Yasu and his girlfriend Julie in an apartment, which is used as one of the yakuza's drug-dealing hubs. In the...
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morning, Yukio informs Logan that Yashida has died. At the funeral, the Yakuza attempts to kidnap Mariko, but Logan and Mariko escape together into the...
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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...
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undercover sting. Simultaneously, Yuji (Etsushi Toyokawa), wanted dead by the yakuza for forthcoming legal testimony, breaks free from Grant's supervision during...
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