The Yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialized world?

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza...

Meet the Japanese Mafia's latest son: a 20 year old named Naoki, part of a surging, decade-long wave...

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the g...

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Minbo no Onna" a.k.a. "Minbo: ...

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Cl...

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator...

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their co...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room:...

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opport...

A good-natured, but a useless man who loves horse racing and spends all of his family's precious mon...

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame f...

Takanori, from a yakuza family goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit. As soon as he gets out h...

In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the tim...

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...

For yakuza, negotiation is another life-or-death battlefield. How do they turn the tables in overwh...

The strength or weakness of an organization lies in the hands of its boss. In the unforgiving world ...