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Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the largest Japanese diaspora in the world, the film follows Akemi, an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates; Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
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Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the largest Japanese diaspora in the world, the film follows Akemi, an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates; Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
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日本語
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In Treasure Town, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. When foreign investors want to destroy the town and turn it to an amusement park, they face their greatest adversaries yet.
4) Everly
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An intense action thriller centered on a down-on-her-luck woman (Salma Hayek) trapped in her apartment, forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her former lover - a dangerous mob boss who wants her dead after he learns she no longer is loyal to him. Desperate to be reunited with her mother and young daughter, she fights to stay alive fending off Yakuza assassin soldiers.
7) Massacre gun
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日本語
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Kuroda, a mob hitman, turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburō, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
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中文(繁體)
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Illegal immigrant Tietou loses his Chinese papers and can't return home. His fellow countrymen help him find illegal work. An incident causes Tietou to save the powerful Yakuza boss Toshinari Eguchi. The mobster offers him the job of boss over the Chinese illegal immigrants. However, his non-violent methods soon make him unpopular and he begins to lose control over his men which leads to a giant gang war.
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English
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Seeking a hundred million reward set up by the Japanese Yakuza for finding the killer of their boss, Fu, in desperate need of money, chooses to become a contract killer and teams up with an agent who is willing to show him the Japanese underworld. Now, Fu and his agent are about to discover the killer no one expected.
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日本語
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"The second film of Miike's Black Society Trilogy continues the theme of alienation with an outcast yakuza, Yuji, who lives as a hit man on the fringes of the Taiwanese criminal world. When a former one-night stand catches up with him, he is unexpectedly saddled with what may be his real son. A sense of responsibility is born in Yuji, as he uses his lethal skills in an attempt to find some sort of haven for his newly found family"--Container.
12) Beyond outrage
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日本語
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Takeshi Kitano returns to his yakuza saga, Outrage, but this time a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld that the police hope starts a war between the crime families and that the families destroy each other.
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日本語
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Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a powerful yakuza (Japanese mafia) clan on Shikoku Island, and the last heir to a family of samurai. His struggles with his enemy yakuza and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody revenge.
15) Gozu
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日本語
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From the acclaimed director, Takashi Miike, comes a Yakuza/horror film to shock and amaze audiences everywhere! When Minami is sent to kill his mentor, Ozakik, who is in the midst of a nervous breakdown, he embarks on a journey of unexplained phenomenon.
17) War
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English
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FBI Agent Jack Crawford is led to believe that his partner Tom Wynne and family are killed by the infamous and elusive assassin, Rogue. Jack becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad's and Shiro the Yakuza boss. When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate...
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Criterion collection volume 564
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日本語
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In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.