The 12 Best Yakuza Movies of All Time, Ranked - Collider
WEBJan 21, 2024 · The 12 Best Yakuza Movies of All Time, Ranked. "Yakuza" is a word used to describe gangster organizations in Japan, with members who often uphold samurai traditions and sport extensive back...
Top 50 Best Yakuza Movies - IMDb
WEBRyuji tries to quit yakuza and spend a decent life with his wife Mariko and daughter Aya, but as he's used to getting easy money, it'd become hard for him to work hard and get little. Eventually he's back to where he belongs.
10 Great Yakuza Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
WEBAug 28, 2020 · Robert Mitchum plays a retired American detective that once was a marine in post-war Japan. When an old friend’s daughter is kidnapped, he returns to Japan to save her. Back in Japan he gets mixed up with an old lover and her brother, the Yakuza, and lots of melancholic memories.
The 25 Best Yakuza Films of All Time – Taste of Cinema – Movie …
WEBAug 2, 2016 · As of the past thirty years or so, the yakuza have become more insidious as a result of anti-gang laws in Japan. In cinema however, the mythology of the yakuza enjoys an enduring fascination. Hence, to follow, are twenty-five of the greatest of these films ranging from stylistic antiheroic tales to the gritty realism of the amoral and corrupt.
The 10 best yakuza movies of all time - Far Out Magazine
WEBJun 2, 2024 · We’ve compiled a list of the best yakuza movies ever made, from horrific showings of violence to transgressions of the genre itself, via some of the greatest names in the history of Japanese cinema.
10 Great Yakuza Movies to Stream After ‘Tokyo Vice’ - Vulture
WEBMay 6, 2022 · Did HBO Max’s ‘Tokyo Vice’ leave you wanting more Japanese yakuza dramas? Fear not: We’ve rounded up 10 of the best Japanese mob films you can stream right now.
The Outsider (2018) - IMDb
WEBThe Outsider: Directed by Martin Zandvliet. With Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shîna, Shioli Kutsuna. An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
Yakuza film - Wikipedia
WEBYakuza 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 organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood -like characters were common.
The Yakuza - Wikipedia
WEBThe screenplay by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne is from a story by Schrader's brother, Leonard Schrader. The film is about a retired American detective who returns to Japan after decades away in order to rescue his friend's daughter, kidnapped by the eponymous crime syndicate.
The 25 Best Yakuza Movies - Complex
WEBDec 2, 2011 · The 25 Best Yakuza Movies. In honor of the brutal new Japanese flick Outrage, get familiar with the country's greatest gangster films.