Yakuza

The city of Hiroshima is a modern day metropolitan area. The history of this city was a dark and dreary one. 70 years, this modernized city was devastated by an attack that went down in history. On August 6, 1945 the United States of America, dropped a bomb on the city of Hiroshima. “A device that harnesses the basic power of the universe.” This is how Truman described the atomic bomb. This was a machine that left a catastrophic effect on the people of Hiroshima. Even though there was…

her boyfriend to interpret the I Ching (the Chinese oracle and book of wisdom). In China a powerful drug dealer weaves a complex plot to oust his competitors from world markets from his new base in South America. The Chinese triads and the Japanese Yakuza get entangled in this complex weft. For obscure reasons their actions seriously endanger the whole scholar´s…

In the overall context of the film, what do you make of the end scene--Kiyoshi getting killed, instead of selling Makoto (at the end of the film?), and Makoto 's jump from the moving car? Cruel Story of Youth is a very dark film, unlike as in earlier movies such as Giants and toys, where the movie is about the higher echelons of Postwar Japan: such as the corporate world and the lives of the newly well to do. Cruel Story of Youth explores the life of Japan’s impoverished urban youth. The life…

In the martial arts action film, Kill Bill: Volume 1, characters have highly complex ethical dilemmas that lead to extremely challenging choices. An ethical dilemma is one in which an individual has to choose between two alternatives, both of which are morally right but in conflict. Morals and ethics are inseparable. They both deal with demands of right and wrong. Resolving ethical dilemmas are rarely simple and very often involve revisiting related dilemmas that recur within societies. This…

“Drift Problem,” Archer goes with Pam and the rest of the ISIS crew to infiltrate a drift meeting. Archer then disrespects the leader and starts a huge battle without consideration of consequences. The entire group of ISIS never considers that the Yakuza may not even have Archer’s charger. Comparably in India Black there is an incident where India climbs out onto the window and tries to get into Gladstone’s room. She never considers that the window might be locked until she reaches it and French…

How did a university drop-out from Melbourne become one of the most watched TV broadcasters on the planet? Michael Schiavello’s take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen him work on television in some of the world’s most amazing places, from Jamaica to Budapest, Tokyo, London, Lodz, Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan, Beijing, Bucharest, New York and beyond. A former radio announcer, magazine editor and host of his own interview show on prime time American TV, he has chewed the fat with such celebrities…

since I’ve been learning about Japan and the Japanese culture in general, I’ve come to learn that a good amount of people seems to think Japan is some unsafe place where serial rapes, train-molestation, and kidnapping happen frequently. Where the Yakuza runs rampant and that it is just a big country of debauchery. Usually after people claim to be an expert on the crime rate and what crimes actually happen in other countries, it usually comes with steaking the claim that America is the best…

Moving forward to The Raven King, we get to know Henry Cheng better. He’s half Chinese and half Korean. His mother Seondeok is a Korean dealer of illegal antiquities. White authors can’t seem to write East Asians without associating them with mob, yakuza,…

X-Men, but he did things his own way. The movie explains Deadpool’s tragic backstory “He seems to vaguely remember an upbringing in Ohio, but Deadpool is unsure of the validity of it. Before the Weapon X scenario, he found himself working for the Yakuza in Japan, but he returned to America” (Dustcircle). Deadpool is hunting the main villain in the movie for revenge on what he did to him in the past for his own personal goal and he tries to do it by himself, but ends up having help which he…

This chapter will explore the development and the popular culture and industry rise, especially in terms of music. As Mark James Russell wrote in his book Pop Goes Korea: “Koreans have long been known as singers and lovers of music, as visiting envoys from China pointed out over 1500 years ago. There were several music traditions in the Joseon dynasty [of 1392 to 1897]. The most famous, the long song-story pansori, grew from the shaman culture of Korea’s southwest. In addition, farmers’ music,…