And for those a bit weary of classic Universal horror pictures, the camp fare of the 1950s and ’60s or, heaven forfend, the ...

While most gangster movies draw acclaim because of their grounded ... an ethnically Chinese gang operating in Japan who ...

Like many American gangsters, Japanese yakuza would model themselves after their ... was somewhat lacking in laughs—ritual cannot afford to be funny—the later gangster films are frequently marked by a ...

gangster) to the small screen. The first outing of the 21 million-selling Like A Dragon series – like all of the 22 sequels, spin-offs and remakes – was based on Japanese yakuza films ...

(The picture is not yet streaming on the Criterion Channel.) Mr. Shinoda may be familiar to fans of Japanese gangster movies thanks to his groundbreaking “Pale Flower” (1964). He may be even ...