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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Made Men written by Antonio Nicaso and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition” has become iconic throughout America. Yet the truth of the matter belies this more noble image. The Mafia is a ruthless organization. Their concept of family is a twisted one. But viewed through the lens of popular culture, it is often difficult to separate the fiction from the reality. Made Men demystifies this image by dismantling the code of honor that Mafiosi live by, including its attendant symbols, rituals, and the lifestyle that it demands. Since the end of World War II, the Mafia in Italy and America has undergone major changes, which are charted by the authors through the present day. Nicaso and Danesi also consider all kinds of related organizations, not only the Italian ones, including the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Russian Mafia. The authors look at organized criminal culture in general, attempting to explain why its symbols, rituals, and practices continue to draw people in, both as literal members, or as consumers of the pop culture that glorifies them. This story traces and decodes the origins, history and success of the mafia in the U.S., bringing a better, and more accurate understanding of this ultimately brutal, violent, and corrupting “family business.” It is a story that has rarely been told in this way, but which is believed, nonetheless, important to tell.
Download or read book The Paths of Zatoichi written by Jonathan Wroot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in medieval Japan, who wanders from village to village and often has to defend himself with his deadly sword skills. The first film was released in 1962 and the most recent in 2010. These dates demonstrate how the franchise can be used as a means of charting Japanese cinema history, via the shifts in production practices and audience preferences which affected the Zatoichi series and numerous other film and TV texts. Zatoichi signifies a huge area of Japanese film history which has largely been ignored in much existing scholarly research, and yet it can reveal much about the appeal of long-running characters, franchises, and their constant adaptation and influence within global popular culture.
Download or read book Boss Wife 3 written by Mayu Sakurai and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 193 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! After learning about Yamato’s past, the two of them grow closer as the dreaded day of the Family Meeting arrives. Yamato’s completely unexpected statements send violent tremors throughout the Hazakura-gumi, but how will Mio feel when she meets Yamato’s father for the very first time...?
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 Global Organized Crime written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive, multidimensional look into the major activities, groups, causes, and policing strategies related to global organized crime. Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbook examines global organized crime dating back to its 17th-century roots. Unlike most works on the subject, which take a parochial approach by concentrating on individual countries or regions, this book uniquely details the impact of 21st-century globalization on such groups and their activities. Exploring the continuum of international organized crime and related developments from its early beginnings to the present era, the book also looks at the complicated issues that continue to influence its growth. It covers the impact of the end of the Cold War, immigration, the global drug trade, weapons sales, human smuggling and trafficking, the convergence of funding sources, and the effects of technology. What especially distinguishes this book is the connections it makes between organized crime activities and failed states, civil wars, political transitions, regional conflicts, and terrorist groups.
Download or read book The Way of the Househusband Vol 3 written by Kousuke Oono and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife—as a househusband! But when the gangster-turned-homemaker needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows—and gets his first part-time job! The cozy yakuza comedy continues! -- VIZ Media
Download or read book Japan and the Shackles of the Past written by R. Taggart Murphy and published by What Everyone Needs to Know (H. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective"--
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.
Download or read book Tapped Out written by Matthew Polly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of American Shaolin tells a hilarious and fascinating insider's account of mixed martial arts, the fastest growing sport in the country. Since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in 1993, mixed martial arts (MMA) has punched, kicked, and wrestled its way into the public's consciousness. MMA is an often brutal sport that combines any and every unarmed fighting technique with pure grit. Today, the gross yearly profits of Ultimate Fighting Championship-the sport's premier professional league-exceed that of professional wrestling, boxing, and even the Boston Red Sox. In Tapped Out, Matthew Polly gives readers his on-the ground take of training and fighting in MMA. At the age of thirty-six, Polly was out of shape and totally unprepared for what was ahead: a grueling journey through leading MMA training facilities in Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Las Vegas. After being utterly beaten down and built back up, he fought his first match against a fighter nearly fifteen years younger-and not only won, but sent his opponent to the hospital. Polly intersperses his own narrative with the history and background of fighting and interviews with top UFC stars such as GSP, Fedor Emelianenko, Randy Couture, and Gina Carano. Evocative of George Plimpton's classic Paper Lion, Polly's honest, funny, and eye-opening account of his experiences will appeal to the millions of devoted MMA fans who are as hardcore as the sport itself. Watch a Video
Download or read book Extreme Asia written by Daniel Martin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme Asia charts the history of the recent cult Asian film invasion, covering a five-year period and focusing on the activities of the distribution company Tartan Films and their incredibly influential 'Asia Extreme' brand.
