Tattoo art is still considered a lower-class macho symbol, traditionally practised among yakuza and construction workers. |
Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry. |
Japanese yakuza kingpin Akatora wants him because he thinks Dinosaur took his merchandise. |
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. |
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. |
In his character-defining moment in Fireworks, Kitano planted a pair of chopsticks into the eye of an offending yakuza. |