Quintessentially Japanese, the yakuza movie has only recently been recognized in the West, primarily through Seijun Suzuki and Kinji Fukasaku's work. If you're like me and you don't know much about the genre aside from the work of the aforementioned directors, you can find a good intro here. You can find a very nice collection of yakuza movie posters here (by the way, the site has an embedded loop of the sound of ocean waves). If you're an American kid of the '70s like me, you were probably introduced to the mythos of the yakuza through Leonard and Paul Schrader's, Robert Towne's and Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza starring Robert Mitchum.
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