Twilight of the Yakuza

The Yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialized world?

Cast

Daikaku Chôdôin

as Himself

Shorai Horitoku

as Himself

Jaime Morris

as (voice)

Yoichi Nakamura

as Himself

Norio Tamura

as Himself

Toyohiko Tanaka

as Himself

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