Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 2 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 7 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 6 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 3 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 5 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 1 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 4 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?

Download or read book Organized Crime written by Antonio Nicaso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them. Why is this so? What feature and constituents of organized criminal gangs make them so emotionally powerful—to themselves and others? These are the questions that have guided the writing of this textbook, which is intended as an introduction to organized crime from the angle of cultural analysis. Key topics include: • An historic overview of organized crime, including the social, economic, and cultural conditions that favour its development; • A review of the type of people who make up organized gangs and the activities in which they engage; • The symbols, rituals, codes and languages that characterize criminal institutions; • The relationship between organized crime and cybercrime; • The role of women in organized crime; • Drugs and narco-terrorism; • Media portrayals of organized crime. Organized Crime includes case studies and offers an accessible, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of organized crime. It is essential reading for students engaged with organized crime across criminology, sociology, anthropology and psychology.

Download or read book Tyrant s Sweet New Wife written by Liang Chen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of someone else's framing, her peaceful life had plummeted. Her boyfriend betrayed her, her mother died, and she was given to a stranger by her uncle. That night, she thought that her life had collapsed from then on. However, she had coincidentally met the famous playboy Young Master Jing. She had married him. Even if her mother-in-law made things difficult for her, and her sister-in-law despised her, she would endure it for the sake of the children in her womb. However, she was framed once again, and was treated as an evil woman who swindled marriage for money! "Jing Shaofan, please sign this." She handed over a divorce agreement. From then on, she had nothing to do with this man. Until that day, when she put on her wedding dress once again, when he suddenly broke into the scene of the wedding ... Only now did she understand that there were some people that she was destined to never be able to avoid. ***

Download or read book The Yakuza s Guide to Babysitting Vol 2 written by Tsukiya and published by Kaiten Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNLIKELY PAIR! On the surface, he's the babysitter for the boss's only daughter Yaeka, but Kirishima is really a member of the yakuza by trade. Thanks to Kirishima's persuasion, Yaeka finally resolves to visit her mother in the hospital, where she shares the feelings she's built up over the past three years. Join this unlikely pair as they make Valentine's chocolates with the gluttonous high school girl Ayumu, become reunited with Kirishima's own former babysitter, and even meeting Yaeka's first friend!

Download or read book Criminality and Business Strategy written by John Zinkin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminality and Business Strategy: Similarities and Differences explores what can be learned from criminal organizations on four continents based on comparisons of their historical and cultural origins, chosen governance and power structures, and business models. It discusses how these contexts determined their applications of the principles and practice of effective, but amoral leadership, and whether these lessons can be applied to legitimate business enterprises. In this book John Zinkin and Chris Bennett argue that defining a "crime" is a contested issue and that criminality can be viewed as a spectrum, comprising a range of different types of crimes, the harms caused, and the variety of punishments involved. They discuss the critical role of the state in determining where criminality is perceived to sit on the crime continuum. The authors delve into how the state and organized crime are natural competitors, and how organized crime and legitimate businesses are subject to many of the same internal and external strategic considerations. They contend that the resulting similarities between criminality in organized criminal organizations and legitimate businesses are greater than the differences and that the differences are only in degree and not in kind. This thought-provoking study of criminality will be of immense interest to professionals, coaches, consultants, and academics interested in the techniques and ethics of leadership. The book is, in effect, the result of an intellectual journey of the authors from the ideas presented in their earlier book, The Principles and Practice of Effective Leadership, to the issues in this book discussing important, difficult, and contested subjects. The journey continues in their third book: The Challenge in Leading Ethical and Successful Organizations.

Download or read book Pachinko National Book Award Finalist written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

Download or read book The Yakuza s Bias 1 written by Teki Yatsuda and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza enforcer becomes the gang world's biggest K-pop stan in this cult comedy manga that went from webcomic to sleeper hit in Japan! Perfect for fans of Way of the Househusband, Phantom of the Idol, or Spy x Family. Ken Kanashiro is one of the top lieutenants in the feared yakuza outfit the Washio Clan. He lives his life by the code of the Japanese underworld, where nothing is more important than loyalty, and ties between soldiers and their aniki are sacred bonds. Ken's never had time for hobbies... until the boss's only daughter Megumi drags him to a K-pop concert, and he sees the glittering, charismatic Jun for the first time. Smitten like a new recruit on his first job, Ken plunges into fandom with the solemnity and passion only a true man who walks the way of the yakuza could muster.

Download or read book Boss Wife 2 written by Mayu Sakurai and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mio, stuck with her father’s debt, finds herself at a dead-end when she runs into her first love, Yamato Kujo. She’s surprised when she learns that he’s become a lieutenant for the Yakuza, and he’s willing to take on her debt in exchange for her hand in marriage! The two begin to live together, and Mio finds herself wanting to know more and more about Yamato. It’s when Yamato invites Mio out on their very first date, that she learns about Yamato’s past...

Download or read book The Cult Film Reader written by Mathijs, Ernest and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An invaluable collection for anyone researching or teaching cult cinema ... The Cult Film Reader is an authoritative text that should be of value to any student or researcher interested in challenging and transgressive cinema that pushes the boundaries of conventional cinema and film studies." Science Fiction Film and Television "A really impressive and comprehensive collection of the key writings in the field. The editors have done a terrific job in drawing together the various traditions and providing a clear sense of this rich and rewarding scholarly terrain. This collection is as wild and diverse as the films that it covers. Fascinating." Mark Jancovich, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK "It's about time the lunatic fans and loyal theorists of cult movies were treated to a book they can call their own. The effort and knowledge contained in The Cult Film Reader will satisfy even the most ravenous zombie's desire for detail and insight. This book will gnaw, scratch and infect you just like the cult films themselves." Brett Sullivan, Director of Ginger Snaps Unleashed and The Chair "The Cult Film Reader is a great film text book and a fun read." John Landis, Director of The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson's Thriller "Excellent overview of the subject, and a comprehensive collection of significant scholarship in the field of cult film. Very impressive and long overdue." Steven Rawle, York St John University, UK Whether defined by horror, kung-fu, sci-fi, sexploitation, kitsch musical or ‘weird world cinema’, cult movies and their global followings are emerging as a distinct subject of film and media theory, dedicated to dissecting the world’s unruliest images. This book is the world’s first reader on cult film. It brings together key works in the field on the structure, form, status, and reception of cult cinema traditions. Including work from key established scholars in the field such as Umberto Eco, Janet Staiger, Jeffrey Sconce, Henry Jenkins, and Barry Keith Grant, as well as new perspectives on the gradually developing canon of cult cinema, the book not only presents an overview of ways in which cult cinema can be approached, it also re-assesses the methods used to study the cult text and its audiences. With editors’ introductions to the volume and to each section, the book is divided into four clear thematic areas of study – The Conceptions of Cult; Cult Case Studies; National and International Cults; and Cult Consumption – to provide an accessible overview of the topic. It also contains an extensive bibliography for further related readings. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Cult Film Reader dissects some of biggest trends, icons, auteurs and periods of global cult film production. Films discussed include Casablanca, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraserhead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Showgirls and Ginger Snaps. Essays by: Jinsoo An; Jane Arthurs; Bruce Austin; Martin Barker; Walter Benjamin; Harry Benshoff; Pierre Bourdieu; Noel Carroll; Steve Chibnall; Umberto Eco; Nezih Erdogan; Welch Everman; John Fiske; Barry Keith Grant ; Joan Hawkins; Gary Hentzi; Matt Hills; Ramaswami Harindranath; J.Hoberman; Leon Hunt; I.Q. Hunter; Mark Jancovich; Henry Jenkins; Anne Jerslev; Siegfried Kracauer; Gina Marchetti; Tom Mes; Gary Needham; Sheila J. Nayar; Annalee Newitz; Lawrence O’Toole; Harry Allan Potamkin; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Andrew Ross; David Sanjek; Eric Schaefer; Steven Jay Schneider; Jeffrey Sconce; Janet Staiger; J.P. Telotte; Parker Tyler; Jean Vigo; Harmony Wu

Download or read book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies written by Bill Palmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia covers the genre from 1920 to 1994. The genre, however, can be very confusing: films often have several titles, and many of the stars have more than one pseudonym. In an effort to clarify some of the confusion, the authors have included all the information available to them on almost 3,300 films. Each entry includes a listing of the production company, the cast and crew, distributors, running times, reviews with star ratings whenever possible, and alternate film titles. A list of film series and one of the stars' pseudonyms, in addition to a 7,900 name index, are also included. Illustrated.