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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 35 min. 29 sec.) ; 577998717 bytes |
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Yakuza is a term which originally stems from the world of gambling, but the word, literally meaning 'eight-nine-three', has other connotations. In Japan, more than 86,000 so-called yakuza are members of consortiums that are fronts for the mafia. The yakuza are led by dictatorial bosses and operate in a world with its own set of rules. In contemporary Japan, it is hard to find enough subservient and reliable disciples, who can be accepted into the clan after a one-year internship. Young Yakuza follows one of them, a 20-year-old freeloader named Naoki, who interns with one of the leading consortiums: the Kumagai clan in Tokyo's Shinagawa district. The French director Limosin depicts this extremely hierarchical organisation, led by a seemingly cold blooded mafia boss, from Naoki's perspective. Limosin interweaves Naoki's experiences with musical intermezzos of rapping contemporaries, but he cannot really capture the consortium's illegal dealings - Japanese predecessors who tried before - did not live to tell the tale. Nonetheless, this detailed portrait of Naoki, who calls it quits after a while, and that of a 'colleague' who ends up in jail, make it clear what kind of parallel universe is lurking beneath the legitimate surface. (From Japan, in Japanese, English subtitles) (Documentary |
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Broadcast 2010-07-28 at 01:05:00 |
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Classification: MA |
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Apprentices.
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Gangs.
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Organized crime.
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Yakuza.
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Japan.
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Streaming video
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Ishii, Chiyozo, cast
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Ishii, Hideyuki, cast
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Limosin, Jean-Pierre, director
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Watanabe, Naoki, cast
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