| Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry. |
| In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love. |
| Her world collapses when her firm forces her to take first chair defense in a murder case involving a smug yakuza who's obviously guilty. |
| Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts. |
| Somehow I can't picture the yakuza funding anything with as low a vig as WMDs, let alone in another country run by an even bigger gang. |
| Films about yakuza, or Japanese gangsters, are deeply imbued with a code of honor and feature subtle moral questions. |
