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Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot of crooks and what he didn't know, his sociopathic sidekick Joe Pike did. Together their search begins in LA's Little Tokyo and the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, and leads...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by the author of Tokyo Vice. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and picking fights. When his dream of being a rock star fails to materialize, he turns to the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer performance, loyalty, and brute...
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed., full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
Set in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a tuberculosis-infected criminal starts an unhealthy relationship with an alcoholic doctor. The patient needs to feel better so that he can retain his status as gang-leader after the ex-leader is released from prison, and the doctor needs to feel like he has a place in society and that life is worth living.
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
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.
5) War
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
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...
7) Into the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the governor of Tokyo is murdered, it falls on ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter to track down the responsible terrorists. However, the plot to kill the governor is only the beginning of a web of corruption and violence. Hunter discovers a plan by a rising Yakuza leader to build an enormous drug-dealing network with the Chinese Mafia. With time running out and the Yakuza determined to see their plan through, Hunter must thwart the operation--and get...
Publisher
Anime Works
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Math teacher by day, crime lord by night, Kumiko struggles to keep her double life a secret. But star student Shin is getting closer and closer to the truth. She has to keep her head while bailing her students out of trouble and stopping the countless turf wars that all seem to involve the school and her hopeless students. As the legendary brute of a senior Ichiro returns, he proves that nothing spices up a school's cultural festival like a few baseball...
Publisher
Anime Works
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The renegade dropout Kudoh is back, and he's joined forces with the Nekomata group to terrorize Kumiko and her students. But Kumiko's biggest worry is Shin. He's dropped out out of school and she's determined to get him back.
Publisher
Anime Works
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kumiko Yamaguchi is the heiress to the Oedo Yakuza family, but it's her dream to teach the youth of Japan. Putting aside her Yakuza cunning, she takes up the role of a normal bubbly graduate, landing a high-school teaching job to a group of unruly students who put her training and resolve to the test.
13) Everly
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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