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Jan 29, 2021 · Kenji Yamamoto then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki ( Hiroshi Tachi ). Hiroshi Shibasaki reaches out to Kenji Yamamoto and they developed a relationship like father and son. As time passes, Kenji Yamamoto has his own family.
Jan 9, 2021 · Yakuza and The Family covers the life of a yakuza family from 1999 to 2019. After Kenji Yamamoto's (Gou Ayano) father died due to an overdose of a stimulant, Kenji joined a...
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A Familybegins in 1999, with a blonde-haired teenager named Kenji Yamamoto (Go Ayano) stumbling into his father’s funeral. We learn that Kenji’s father died of a drug overdose; resolving to never become like his old man, Kenji and two of his friends steal drugs from a street dealer and throw them into the ocean. This catches the attention of a loca...
The first two parts of A Familyaren’t particularly remarkable, though dedicated gangster movie fans may still find enough to satisfy themselves. While the cinematography is competent, and even distinctive in a few moments (ex. vertically panning drone shots across bleak industrial cityscapes), the narrative—of young guy joins gang, gang gets into t...
This last act is where A Familybecomes worth paying attention to. Starting in the early 2010’s, Japan’s local governments began passing yakuzaexclusion ordinancesthat prohibited regular citizens from doing business or otherwise engaging with the yakuza. These laws severely curtailed the yakuza’s commercial operations and personal lives. Yakuzagangs...
As the first major, internationally streamable movie to address the yakuza’s waning influence, A Family is a valuable addition to discourse around Japanese organized crime. While 2020 indie film Under the Open Skyalso broaches this reality, it is far less accessible and lacks international distribution. Otherwise, Japanese cinema is still stuck wit...
Jun 29, 2021 · A Family (also titled Yakuza and The Family) follows a Yakuza (gangster) life and his allegiance towards his boss, who brought him up as a father figure. Fujii Michihito’s narrative captures a captivating father-son relationship, tracing the rise and fall of the Yakuza empire in Japan.
Dec 29, 2020 · J Trailers. 22.6K subscribers. 643. 109K views 2 years ago. Movie Title: Yakuza and The Family, Yakuza and Family , Yakuza to Kazoku: The Family , Yakuza to Kazoku Release Date:...
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A Family, also known as Yakuza and the Family (Japanese: ヤクザと家族 The Family) is a Japanese drama film directed and written by Michihito Fujii. that aired on June 18, 2021. The film premiered in Japan earlier this year, but it had its premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse film festival in November 2020. Contents. 1Summary. 2Plot. 3Cast and Characters.
It is the type of movie that glorified the once notorious character whose life spiraled apart and found his old job the only thing he could cling into. It's similar to The Wrestler or The Wolf of Wall Street. Here, the only thing our main character could cling to was his family, the yakuza family.
