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Yakuza film

Index Yakuza film

is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. [1]

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A Diary of Chuji's Travels

is a silent Japanese jidaigeki made in 1927 starring Denjirō Ōkōchi and directed by Daisuke Itō.

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Abashiri Prison (film)

aka A Man from Abashiri Prison is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Teruo Ishii and starring Ken Takakura.

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Akira Kobayashi

is a Japanese actor and singer.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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Akumyō

The series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Bakuto

Bakuto (博徒) were itinerant gamblers in Japan from the 18th century to the mid-20th century.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (film)

is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

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Black Rain (1989 American film)

Black Rain is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, and Kate Capshaw.

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Boiling Point (1990 film)

Boiling Point, known in Japan as, is a 1990 Japanese film written by, directed by, and co-starring Takeshi Kitano.

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Branded to Kill

is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara and Annu Mari.

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Brother (2000 film)

Brother is a 2000 American-British-Japanese film starring, written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano.

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Bunta Sugawara

was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films.

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Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years.

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Complex (magazine)

Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.

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Daiei Film

Daiei Film Co.

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Daisuke Itō (film director)

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who played a central role in the development of the modern jidaigeki and samurai cinema.

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Dead or Alive (film)

, abbreviated as DOA (Dii ō ei), is a 1999 Japanese yakuza action film directed by Takashi Miike.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film to the public immediately on home video formats rather than a theatrical release or television broadcast.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Drunken Angel

is a 1948 Japanese yakuza film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Film genre

A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (namely, serious, comic, etc.). Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism.

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Film Society of Lincoln Center

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is a film presentation organization based in New York City, United States.

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Gangster film

A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime.

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Gokudō

is a name for cheaply produced (often direct to video) Yakuza movies.

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Gozu

is a 2003 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike and written by Sakichi Sato.

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Graveyard of Honor (1975 film)

is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

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Hana-bi

, released in the United States as Fireworks, is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it.

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Hideki Takahashi

is a Japanese actor.

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Hiroki Matsukata

, better known by his stage name, was a Japanese actor.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Ichi the Killer (film)

is a 2001 Japanese crime-horrorhttps://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/90549/ichi.the.killer film directed by Takashi Miike, written by Sakichi Sato, based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga series of the same name, and starring Tadanobu Asano and Nao Omori.

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Joe Shishido

is a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones.

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Juzo Itami

, born, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Kōji Tsuruta

, better known by his stage name, was a Japanese actor and singer.

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Ken Takakura

, born, was a Japanese actor and singer who appeared in over 200 films.

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Kenji Imai

Kenji Imai (b Tokyo, 11 Jan 1895; d Tokyo, 20 May 1987) was a Japanese architect and professor.

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Kimono

The is a traditional Japanese garment.

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Kinji Fukasaku

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who rose to prominence for his association with the Japanese New Wave.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.

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Kunisada Chūji

was a Japanese person in the Edo period.

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Kyodo News

is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.

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Mark Schilling

Mark Schilling (born 1949 in Zanesville, Ohio) is an American film critic, journalist, translator, and author based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Masahiro Shinoda

is a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Mikio Narita

was a Japanese actor.

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Minbo

is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami.

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Nikkatsu

is a Japanese entertainment company known for its film and television productions.

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Noboru Ando

was a Japanese actor and former yakuza.

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Nobuo Kaneko

was a Japanese actor.

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Occupation of Japan

The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.

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Onibi (film)

is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Rokuro Mochizuki.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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Outrage (2010 film)

is a 2010 Japanese yakuza film directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano.

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Pale Flower

is a 1964 Japanese film noir directed by Masahiro Shinoda.

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Postman Blues

is a 1997 Japanese criminal action comedy-drama film directed and written by Hiroyuki Tanaka under the name Sabu.

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Rainy Dog

is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, completely set and filmed in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Ren Osugi

, born (September 27, 1951 – February 21, 2018) was a Japanese actor.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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Riki Takeuchi

is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film.

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Rokurō Mochizuki

is a Japanese film director who has worked in pink film, adult videos and mainstream cinema.

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Sabu (director)

is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director.

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Seijun Suzuki

, born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter.

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Shaky camera

Handheld camera,Mekas, Jonas. "A Note on the Shaky Camera." Film Culture, issues 24-27, 1962.

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Shima Iwashita

, better known as Shima Iwashita (岩下 志麻 Iwashita Shima; born January 3, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan), is a Japanese actress who has appeared in about 100 films and many TV productions.

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Shingo Yamashiro

was a Japanese television and film actor.

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Shinji Aoyama

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist.

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Shintaro Katsu

was a Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director.

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Show Aikawa

is a Japanese actor.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sonatine (1993 film)

is a 1993 Japanese yakuza film directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film.

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Stone Bridge Press

Stone Bridge Press, Inc. is a publishing company distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution and founded in 1989.

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Street Mobster

Street Mobster, known in Japan as, is a 1972 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando.

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Sumiko Fuji

is a Japanese actress.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Susumu Terajima

is a Japanese actor.

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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Sympathy for the Underdog

Sympathy for the Underdog, known in Japan as, is a 1971 Japanese yakuza film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Koji Tsuruta and Noboru Ando.

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Tadashi Sawashima

(19 May 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Japanese film director and theatre director.

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Taishō period

The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.

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Takashi Miike

is a Japanese filmmaker.

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Takeshi Kitano

is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter.

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Teruo Ishii

was a Japanese film director best known in the West for his early films in the Super Giant series, and for his films in the Ero guro ("erotic-grotesque") subgenre of pinku eiga such as Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968).

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Tetsurō Tamba

was a Japanese actor known for his role in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice as Tiger Tanaka.

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Tetsuya Watari

is a Japanese film, stage, and television actor.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Yakuza

The Yakuza is a 1974 Japanese-American neo-noir gangster film directed by Sydney Pollack, written by Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, and Robert Towne.

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Toei Company

() is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation.

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Tokyo Drifter

is a 1966 ''yakuza'' film directed by Seijun Suzuki.

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

, born Masaru Okumura,Leous, G. (c. 2003): Retrieved on May 23, 2010.

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Toshiro Mifune

was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films.

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Underworld Beauty

is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki.

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Videocassette recorder

A videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yakuza

, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza_film

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