You may be curious about what they're up to when the cameras are turned off, but you'll never find out.
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06/19/08
Young Yakuza (2007)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:3
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.1/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Filmed over an 18-month period, Young Yakuza explores the Japanese crime underworld, through the portraits of two figures: 20-year-old Naoki, a new recruit of the Kumagai crime organization, and... [More]
Director: Jean Pierre Limosin
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Reviews for Young Yakuza
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Ultimately the viewer is left in the same bind as the filmmakers: wishing we'd been able to follow Naoki's apprenticeship to its traditional conclusion and beyond.
05/23/08
Plays more like a bad feature than a documentary.
05/23/08
If you're expecting a real-life version of a bloody Takashi Miike movie, forget it.
04/18/08
Top CriticJean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza looks at Japan’s version of the Mafia.
04/18/08
Top CriticJuggling restraint and boldness to tackle this subject on many unexpected layers establishes this work as a brilliant effort.
04/16/08
I kept looking for signs that Young Yakuza was a scripted mockumentary. But eventually I came to believe Limosin's claims, simply because, with all the options fiction provides, no one would deliberately construct so dull and meandering a story.
04/03/08
Never delivers either the thrill of its underworld setting or much insight into its complicated workings.
04/03/08
An intelligent, if non-illuminating, look at an organization.
05/25/07
Top CriticA wayward Japanese youth's apprenticeship with the Nipponese mafia provides an intriguing premise but little substance in French docu Young Yakuza.
05/20/07
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