How To Use Yakuza In A Sentence
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In the eyes of an average Japanese a tattoo is considered a mark of a yakuza - a member of the Japanese mafia - or a macho symbol of members of the lower classes.
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I'm fond of the menko cards I found at a flea market in Nagoya years ago of sumo rikishi and yakuza.
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Siomio uji Sanron skibby ukiyo-e sansei skimmia ume Sapporo, adj. soba urushi sasanqua (or sodoku urushic acid Sasankwa) Soka Gakkai urushiol Sasebo, adj. soy urushiye sashimi soya wacadash satori soya bean waka satsuma soyate Wakayama, adj. satsuma ware soybean wakizashi sawara cypress soybean cyst warabi sayonara nematode wasabi sayonara, interj. soybean lecithin yagi sen soybean milk yakitori sendai, adj. soybean oil yakuza Sendai virus soybean oil meal Yamaguchigumi sentoku soy flour yamamai seppa soy frame Yamato-e seppa dai soymilk yamoto seppuku sugi Yawata, adj. sesshin suiseki yayoi, adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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So it was perhaps inevitable that he should have turned to playing a gangster - a yakuza - in his fourth film.
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He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix.
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You know how the yakuza works better than anybody, Tsu-kun, you know how your parents work.
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The result is a complete break from the yakuza films and actioners for which Kitano is known.
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One ring of yakuza gangsters, operating through connections at a major medical center in Boston, was uncovered by journalists and broken up by police a decade ago.
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Joel dreams of escape from his Alaskan bondage when a couple Japanese businessmen / yakuza weighing whether to build a resort in Alaska or Hawaii arrive in Cicely to be wined and dined by Maurice.
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The appearance of Charlie's Angel Lucy Liu as head of a powerful cartel of Japanese yakuza, adds to that sense that you are watching bad ‘angels’.
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Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry.
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Japanese yakuza kingpin Akatora wants him because he thinks Dinosaur took his merchandise.
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This was a losing hand and an ironic one, because those three numbers formed the kanji for the word Yakuza.
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Here, a sheepish young yakuza is ordered to kill his insane boss but things go awry when his elder disappears in a town full of loons, zombies, and halfwits.
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In nearly every Zatoichi film, the female lead falls in love with the grubby, poor, and blind former yakuza, usually because she's drawn to his kindness and willingness to defend the weak.
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Films about yakuza, or Japanese gangsters, are deeply imbued with a code of honor and feature subtle moral questions.
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It is the story of a displaced yakuza gangster, whose crime family is killed and who flies to LA in search of his brother, only to wind up in the gangland web there.
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In his character-defining moment in Fireworks, Kitano planted a pair of chopsticks into the eye of an offending yakuza.
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As he climbs the rungs of the underground ladder, he'll draw the attention of the cops, the Mafia, the Yakuza and every two-bit thug in town.
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Two upside-down Yakuza punks were stepping up onto the platform.
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Various kinds of people came to stay there, including members of the yakuza, and given that fact, I thought it would be foolish not to learn some kind of martial art.
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In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love.
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He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix.
FLOATING CITY
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Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer.
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Tattoo art is still considered a lower-class macho symbol, traditionally practised among yakuza and construction workers.
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Also from Miike, FanTasia screened Gozu, a film that begins with a crazed gangster who hallucinates that a tiny Chihuahua is ‘a trained Yakuza attack dog’ and smashes the hapless creature against a restaurant window.
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JAPAN'S yakuza gangsters are losing their ‘Robin Hood’ image as the country's deepening recession forces them to target ordinary people.
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Ichinomiya was once a small and peaceful town, free of yakuza, but recent months have seen a shakedown of all the businesses by a thug named Boss Gonzo.
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Moon Child is a low budget Japanese yakuza vampire sci-fi action drama.
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Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters).
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Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
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They go to catch up at her father's yakitori joint, which we learn has been funded by Yakuza money.
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Siomio uji Sanron skibby ukiyo-e sansei skimmia ume Sapporo, adj. soba urushi sasanqua (or sodoku urushic acid Sasankwa) Soka Gakkai urushiol Sasebo, adj. soy urushiye sashimi soya wacadash satori soya bean waka satsuma soyate Wakayama, adj. satsuma ware soybean wakizashi sawara cypress soybean cyst warabi sayonara nematode wasabi sayonara, interj. soybean lecithin yagi sen soybean milk yakitori sendai, adj. soybean oil yakuza Sendai virus soybean oil meal Yamaguchigumi sentoku soy flour yamamai seppa soy frame Yamato-e seppa dai soymilk yamoto seppuku sugi Yawata, adj. sesshin suiseki yayoi, adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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Constituencies are gerrymandered, kickbacks from public works are channelled back to the party through yakuza gangsters and key policy decisions are made by party elders behind closed doors.
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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.
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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.
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Yukie Nakama) who is the daughter of a famous Yakuza gamily.
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In Dead or Alive, Ryu, a stoic, stylish criminal with a mixed Chinese and Japanese background, leads his posse into a war against Japanese yakuza and Chinese Triad bosses in Tokyo.
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