Yakuza

Kodama and Sasakawa became power-brokers in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, while they also grew rich from their association with the yakuza, a shadowy organized crime syndicate, according to the book, Yakuza, by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro.

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Kodama and Sasakawa became power-brokers in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, while they also grew rich from their association with the yakuza, a shadowy organized crime syndicate, according to the book, Yakuza, by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro.

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Yosuke Kubozuka, main actor in PING PONG (and that was probably the most recent film I've seen with him in it, I actually haven't seen anything he did after he fell off from the balcony of his condo back in 2004), plays the son of the local yakuza, who is pissed that he's helpless against Banki's gang. (before I read Twitch's review, I thought he was the son of the sheriff or something, was never aware that villages are protected by Yakuza) There's also a subplot of a useless and bumbling wandering samurai played by Takao Osawa who befriends Ichi, and can never seem to draw his sword out of his sheath due to some tragic incident, and a motherless little boy who serves as Ichi's guide.

Swifty, Writing 2008

The word Yakuza literally translates to 8-9-3, which add up to 20.

8-9-3 by Jack Hsu – review 2009

This was a losing hand and an ironic one, because those three numbers formed the kanji for the word Yakuza,

Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

Featuring the original all-star Japanese voice cast and subtitled in English, Yakuza 3 chronicles the next steps in the life of the man once known as the Dragon of Dojima - Kiryu Kazuma.

WorthPlaying.com - All about games! Rainier 2010

Featuring the original all-star Japanese voice cast and subtitled in English, Yakuza 3 chronicles the next steps in the life of the man once known as the Dragon of Dojima - Kiryu Kazuma.

WorthPlaying.com - All about games! 2010

Sega's PlayStation 3 title Yakuza 3 has topped the Japanese charts on its first week of release, with 372,000 copies sold.

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The word Yakuza is made up of the numbers in a losing hand at gambling; there is, always, within the Yakuza an undercurrent of a kind of self-flagellation, a sense of having to pay a penalty for living a life outside the law. "

Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

Young Yakuza is directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin who had to gain a large amount of trust with the gang boss on the film, after all, the Yakuza are a gang who deal in illegal activities.

Filmstalker: Documentary enters world of Yakuza 2007