• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • series, and the first since the 2007 film Like a Dragon. It follows Kazuma Kiryu (Ryoma Takeuchi), a former yakuza who after years in prison, returns to...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • are yakuza criminals, recognizable by their irezumi tattoos. Nick saves a yakuza named Kiyoshi from being hanged to death. Shiromatsu, a yakuza clan...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 3 is a 2009 action-adventure game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The third main entry in the Like a Dragon series, it was...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Yakuza is a 2005 action-adventure game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 2. It was released in December 2005 in Japan and in September...
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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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  • 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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  • Yakuza Graveyard, known in Japan as Yakuza no Hakaba: Kuchinashi no Hana (やくざの墓場 くちなしの花, "Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower"), is a 1976 Japanese yakuza film...
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    Takeshi Kitano (category Yakuza film directors)
    he would be invited to drink with yakuza, who would tell him stories about the big crime bosses. His first major film role was in Nagisa Oshima's Merry...
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