Young Yakuza (2007)

Young Yakuza plot

Yakuza is originally a term from the gambling world. However, the word, which literally means eight-nine-three, covers several meanings. In Japan, more than 86 thousand so-called yakuza are part of syndicates that are in fact mafia organizations. The yakuzas come under a dictatorial boss and operate in a world with its own rules. It is not easy in today's Japan to find enough docile and reliable students who can be admitted to a clan after an internship year. "Young Yakuza" follows one of them, twenty-year-old freeloader Naoki, who is apprenticed to one of the most important syndicates: the Kumagai clan in Tokyo's Shinagawa district. French director Limosin films this highly hierarchical organization, led by a cold-looking mafia boss, from the perspective of this newcomer. His experiences are intersected with musical intermezzos of rapping peers. Limosin doesn't really penetrate the syndicate's illegal practices. Japanese predecessors who tried that did not survive their attempts. But his detailed portrait of the intern Naoki, who after a while gives up, and that of a 'colleague' who ends up in prison, make clear what parallel universe lies beneath the legal surface.

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