Twilight of the Yakuza

Name: Twilight of the Yakuza
Director: Sebastian Stein
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-07-26
Duration: 2 h 6 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Daikaku Chôdôin, Shorai Horitoku, Jaime Morris, Yoichi Nakamura, Norio Tamura

Directed by Sebastian Stein

Documentary

20132h 6m7.2

Overview

The Yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialized world?