“Yakuza movies will always rock, and their heroes will always be the
old-style yakuza, living and dying by their code of honor, but in real
life the heroes are 603 normal people in the Kurume who are doing what
the cops and the government will not: standing up to the yakuza and
trying to run them out of town.”  Grady Hendrix has a lot more to say at Kaiju Shakedown.