About this episode

Tim and Jen discuss the film The Yakuza and its themes of an outsider in a closed society.

Tim and Jen weeb out over an overlooked-in-its-time tale of an outsider navigating a closed and unforgiving society, The Yakuza. Tip us at our Ko-Fi! Jen oversimplifies the origins of the yakuza here, plus she just plain doesn’t know a hell of a lot about Japanese culture! A YouTuber going by ANIKI has an entire playlist of deep dives on yakuza and their history that will leave you better informed. Read an archived version of Paul Schrader’s primer on yakuza-eiga (gangster films) from 1974. From the Alienated in Vancouver blog: Allan MacInnis interviews author AJ Devlin about, among other things, Leonard Schrader and The Yakuza . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim, Jen

Topics covered

• yakuza
• Japanese culture
• film analysis
• gangster films
• society
• outsiders

Keywords

• The Yakuza
• yakuza
• Japanese culture
• film analysis
• gangster films
• Tim
• Jen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ANIKI, Alienated in Vancouver

Books & works: The Yakuza, yakuza-eiga

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