The Yakuza Japans organized crime syndicates are a dying breed Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a largescale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all ...

Two new movies about gangsters mark a clear departure ... with the revised anti-organized crime law and organized crime exclusion ordinances. The crackdowns have not only hurt the finances of ...

His alleged crime? Police accuse him of stealing Pokémon cards. Yakuza are members of organized crime syndicates, the Japanese equivalents of gangsters or mafiosos. Membership peaked in the 1960s ...

(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 ...

Organized crime has held an exciting and dangerous place in movies, and that's especially true for movies surrounding Yakuza.

there was widely expressed concern over how it would capture the unique tone of Sega’s long-running and beloved game series set in the world of Japanese organized crime. You may have heard there ...

After finding his fiancée has married a yakuza mob boss ... Where most gangster movies are about the inner workings of ...

Titled Like a Dragon: Yakuza, the gritty crime drama follows ... their heads around the complicated structure of Japanese organized crime, which involves a lot of “families,” patriarchs ...

Yakuza has the unenviable task of taking RGG Studio’s beloved Yakuza video game series and translating it into prestige ...

follows Kazuma Kiryu (Ryoma Takeuchi), a fighter and former Yakuza gang member who tries to resist a return of his life of crime, but gets drawn in by his old best friend and now rival Akira ...