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Riki Takeuchi (Japanese: 竹内 力, Hepburn: Takeuchi Riki, born January 4, 1964) is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.. Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike.
Yakuza film (Japanese: ヤクザ映画, Hepburn: Yakuza eiga) is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood -like characters were common.
D. Daimon Otokode Shinitai; Dangan Runner; Darc (film) Dead or Alive (1999 film) Dead or Alive 2: Birds; Dead or Alive: Final; Deadly Outlaw: Rekka; Deliver Us from Evil (2020 film)
The word "minbo" is a contraction of minji kainyū bōryoku (民事介入暴力), literally translated as "violent intervention in civil affairs". It was a technique utilized by the yakuza following the crackdown of traditionally "victimless" crimes of drugs, gambling, and prostitution in the early 1980s, and exploited the Japanese reluctance towards confrontation in order to "gently extort ...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara adapts a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō.
Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto contributed the song "Laserman" to the soundtrack. [13] [14] The soundtrack was originally released as a 7-track album in 1989 by Virgin Movie Music on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. It was re-released in 2012 by La-La Land Records as a two-disc set, with the complete score as Disc 1 and an extended version ...
Sympathy for the Underdog, known in Japan as Bakuto Gaijin Butai (博徒外人部隊, "Outlaw Gambler-Foreign Legion"), is a 1971 Japanese yakuza film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Kōji Tsuruta and Noboru Ando.
Graveyard of Honor (Japanese: 仁義の墓場, Hepburn: Jingi no Hakaba) is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Written by Tatsuhiko Kamoi, it adapts Fujita Goro's novel of the same name. It is based on the life of real-life yakuza member Rikio Ishikawa, who is played by Tetsuya Watari. [1]