Collection: Yakuza

A popular film genre in Japanese cinema focused on the lives and dealings of the Yakuza, Japanese organised crime syndicates; borderless action and power.

The Yakuza have been in media and culture in many different fashions. Creating its own genre of movies within Japan's film industry, the portrayal of the Yakuza mainly manifests in one of two archetypes; they are portrayed as either honorable and respectable men or as criminals who use fear and violence as their means of operation.