(Editor's note: The following article originally appeared in conjunction with the Asia Society film series Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie, a retrospective of ...

So it might be hard to believe that I didnt really think about Primes Like a Dragon: Yakuza adaptation ahead of its launch ...

Although yakuza movies were once a very popular genre, only a handful have been made in recent years. The two new ones show how real-life changes are now affecting those in the underworld.

In the yakuza society ... to the boss's wishes to lie down on his sickbed, Segawa, the top candidate for successor, begins to do suspicious things behind the scenes. The insatiable greed that ...

Shinya Yuyama is a former member of the yakuza in Japan. He says he was arrested 11 times, as a juvenile and adult, and has served eight years in prison. He says he joined the mob when he was 18 ...

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and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like ...

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Below, find out when to stream Like a Dragon: Yakuza online and the episode release schedule for season one. Created by Sean Crouch and Yugo Nakamura, Like a Dragon: Yakuza, which is in Japanese ...