| Tattoo art is still considered a lower-class macho symbol, traditionally practised among yakuza and construction workers. |
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| Japanese yakuza kingpin Akatora wants him because he thinks Dinosaur took his merchandise. |
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| Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts. |
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| The result is a complete break from the yakuza films and actioners for which Kitano is known. |
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| In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love. |
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| Somehow I can't picture the yakuza funding anything with as low a vig as WMDs, let alone in another country run by an even bigger gang. |
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| Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer. |
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| Films about yakuza, or Japanese gangsters, are deeply imbued with a code of honor and feature subtle moral questions. |
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| Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry. |
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| In his character-defining moment in Fireworks, Kitano planted a pair of chopsticks into the eye of an offending yakuza. |
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| You know how the yakuza works better than anybody, Tsu-kun, you know how your parents work. |
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| Her world collapses when her firm forces her to take first chair defense in a murder case involving a smug yakuza who's obviously guilty. |
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| Moon Child is a low budget Japanese yakuza vampire sci-fi action drama. |
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| However, for him, it is the true combat which starts because to survive in the medium without pity of the yakuza is not whole rest. |
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| The sinister and bizarre yakuza, with their full-body tattoos and missing fingers, inspire genuine fear in ordinary Japanese. |
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| Because of a scoop too quickly choked, it is put at back Asami, dangerous but tempting a yakuza. |
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| Various kinds of people came to stay there, including members of the yakuza, and given that fact, I thought it would be foolish not to learn some kind of martial art. |
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| Here, a sheepish young yakuza is ordered to kill his insane boss but things go awry when his elder disappears in a town full of loons, zombies, and halfwits. |
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| There was a time in Japan, decades ago, when socializing with the yakuza was acceptable. |
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| Traditionally, the yakuza have supplied the ruling party with votes, financial aid, and squelching scandal services. |
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| It was established in Kyoto in the 1860s according to the yakuza history book Ninkyojuku. |
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| In Kyushu, where the yakuza are deeply rooted, they are not leaving with a whimper, they are leaving with a bang. |
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| Ichinomiya was once a small and peaceful town, free of yakuza, but recent months have seen a shakedown of all the businesses by a thug named Boss Gonzo. |
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| The minister of Justice is supposed to be the watchdog of the law, not a matchmaker for the yakuza. |
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| The npa reportedly explained the decline in yakuza membership as due to the police crackdown on organized crime syndicates. |
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| The yakuza were traditionally federations of gamblers and street merchants. |
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| Japanese law enforcement uses all the laws available to crack down on the yakuza. |
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| According to the National Police Agency, yakuza membership peaked in 1963, at approximately 184,100 members. |
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| The yakuza currently number 60,000 people and being a member is not illegal. |
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| In 2006, a compliance officer at Mizuho Bank was arrested for selling the data of 1200 bank customers to a yakuza front company. |
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| One ring of yakuza gangsters, operating through connections at a major medical center in Boston, was uncovered by journalists and broken up by police a decade ago. |
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| It is the story of a displaced yakuza gangster, whose crime family is killed and who flies to LA in search of his brother, only to wind up in the gangland web there. |
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| For his return to the yakuza film since Brother, Kitano strikes hard and fast: he removes all poetry from his shots, preferring the pace and brutality of the scenes of violence. |
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| These right-wing gangs are fronts for criminal yakuza, Japan's mafia. |
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| Mr Ito's murder hints at yakuza desperation more than strength. |
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| Other abiding beliefs include companies looking after workers through lifetime employment and the yakuza, Japan's mafia, being guardians of the lost samurai spirit. |
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| Mr Fukasaku sought more contemporary stories and became interested in the yakuza, gangsters who regarded themselves as upholders of traditional Japanese virtues as they pursued their careers of graft, blackmail and vice. |
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| When they were younger, these men took to the streets to fight their exploitation by the yakuza, the organised crime syndicates which still run the local labour-broking and gambling rackets. |
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| The sumo Association pledged to end yakuza ties the same year. |
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| They go to catch up at her father's yakitori joint, which we learn has been funded by Yakuza money. |
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| The Yakuza greases the palm of a creepy shopkeeper to use his basement for the event. |
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| He took me to a small local Izakaya run by a guy who used to be closely affiliated with the Yakuza. |
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| Two upside-down Yakuza punks were stepping up onto the platform. |
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| The Yakuza syndicates are involved in activities ranging from prostitution and drugs to extortion and white-collar crime. |
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| Originating in Japan and operating across the globe, the Yakuza are regarded as some of the most sophisticated and wealthiest criminal organizations. |
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