History of Japan

Episode 583 - The Men of Chivalry, Part 3

Freitag, 20. Juni 2025 · 42 min

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This week: we take a look at the genre of the yakuza movie, or ninkyo eiga, which started off as a branch of the samurai film genre before becoming very much its own thing--and, for a decade or so in the 1960s and 1970s, dominating the Japanese box office.
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