Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
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Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
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Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#2Is it just me or the article ends quite abruptly? I was expecting a story, not an intro and a few pictures.
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#3Is it just me or the article ends quite abruptly? I was expecting a story, not an intro and a few pictures.
It's an article about a collection of photography by an artist, not a photojournalist. Given that, this format seems typical. I would also love to hear more though.
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#4This article has more content, including photos.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40877/1...
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#5I really liked the photography.
Having said that, Are the yakuza 'Great Men'?
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#6I heartily recommend the movie Pale Flower (1964)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-pale-flower-1...
> “Pale Flower" is one of the most haunting noirs I've seen, and something more; in 1964 it was an important work in an emerging Japanese New Wave of independent filmmakers, an exercise in existential cool.
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#7This article has more content, including photos. https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40877/1...
Thank you for providing an alternative. While the subject matter is interesting, the submitted article was low quality, both in the writing and whatever editing it received (numerous grammatical and textual errors remain).
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#8There's one such Yakuza boss whom I frequently see at my local sento bathhouse.
His two or three servile bodyguards and quite fantastically beautiful body tattoo, make him very easy to identify as a top crime boss.
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#9There's one such Yakuza boss whom I frequently see at my local sento bathhouse. His two or three servile bodyguards and quite fantastically beautiful body tattoo, make him very easy to identify as a top crime boss.
Are these specific bathhouse that allow tattooes?
Re: Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
#10There's one such Yakuza boss whom I frequently see at my local sento bathhouse. His two or three servile bodyguards and quite fantastically beautiful body tattoo, make him very easy to identify as a top crime boss.
Are these specific bathhouse that allow tattooes?
I don't know if it's all that rare. My wife and I attended one in Asakusa on our last day in Japan and saw a couple of yakuza guys. (And she saw one of the woman yakuza on the women's side.) We didn't go looking for them, it was just the closest neighborhood bath house to the shrine.
The other bath house I went to, the one at the bottom of Mt. Takao, did not allow any tattoos. But it was much larger and more commercial.