yakuza

How To Use yakuza In A Sentence

• Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
• In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love.
• He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix. FLOATING CITY
• Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer.
• Tattoo art is still considered a lower-class macho symbol, traditionally practised among yakuza and construction workers.
• Also from Miike, FanTasia screened Gozu, a film that begins with a crazed gangster who hallucinates that a tiny Chihuahua is ‘a trained Yakuza attack dog’ and smashes the hapless creature against a restaurant window.
• JAPAN'S yakuza gangsters are losing their ‘Robin Hood’ image as the country's deepening recession forces them to target ordinary people.
• Ichinomiya was once a small and peaceful town, free of yakuza, but recent months have seen a shakedown of all the businesses by a thug named Boss Gonzo.
• Moon Child is a low budget Japanese yakuza vampire sci-fi action drama.
• Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters).