Word: yakuza
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...that it has been destroyed (and rebuilt) six times. Seven may be the charm, since one of the students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro Mifune?s menace), and a cigarette-puffing robot in a pink shirt. The entire group sends...
...Osaka to earn money for travel. Mary's adventures in boredom, sexual harassment and exposure to secondary smoke portend a Lost in Translation comedy of manners. But something darker is afoot. Mary is having an affair with the bar owner's son, a handsome man with connections to the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate. As the relationship deepens, her travel plans keep receding. "Every one of his embraces squeezes a little more of the wanderlust out of me," the smitten Mary confesses. The book's focus quickly shifts to two other members of the Sayonara circle who tell their...
Between Dylan’s seemingly ubiquitous presence and what Prof. Thomas calls the “never ending tour,” his appearance in a Victoria Secret commercial and one of his song’s close lyrical resemblance to passages from a Japanese Yakuza novel, the Troubadour has sparked some heated controversy...
...honesty have also come under scrutiny. Songs off of his new album such as “Floater” and “Po’ Boy” seem to take lines almost verbatim from the English translation of Junachi Saga’s Confessions of a Yakuza...
...yaakoo [an amiable way of saying yakuza]," the 42-year-old publisher laughs. We are sitting at Little More's headquarters in Tokyo's trendy and chic Minami Aoyama neighborhood, not far from the cozy gallery he opened four years ago to exhibit the paintings of cutting-edge actor Tadanobu Asano. "I like this outfit, and I don't want to change for anyone. I realize it's unusual, but I like to break the rules," Takei says in his thick Osaka dialect...