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I'd be interested in reading more about the evidence. I just watched the show and though I'm sure it's got quite a bit of embellishment, anything I've read in
by banashark 3y ago
I'd be interested in reading more about the evidence.
I just watched the show and though I'm sure it's got quite a bit of embellishment, anything I've read in the past made the yakuza out to be about the level they're shown in the show (have some power within their local communities, but not much in government unless they can blackmail someone via prostitution or otherwise).
- zerocrates 3y agoThe Hollywood Reporter ran an article about it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tokyo-vice-problematic-source-material-1235135828/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/toky... Though he's disputed it. His problems with National Geographic are telling... the same year he's unable to produce any connections for their show, he's got close enough connections to "high-ranking gangster bosses" to write an article where he purportedly has them play and discuss the video game Yakuza 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20110214054056/https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110214054056/https://boingboin... (side note: this article describes him playing this game with these guys "one Thursday afternoon," having a teenager teach them to play a video game, having three separate people play this single-player game while discussing it, one of whom finishes it despite an average main story playtime of over 16 hours)
- resolutebat 3y agoThe Yakuza, weirdly, operate semi-publicly so their headquarters, hierarchies, and membership numbers are well known. In the early 90s there were close to 100,000 members, now there's probably under 20k. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01383/ https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01383/