Photographer Chloé Jafé spent six years documenting the life and intimacy of the women married to Yakuza members in the Japanese organised crime community. Video by Andrea Savorani Neri and ...

(Editor's note: The following article originally appeared in conjunction with the Asia Society film series Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie, a retrospective of ...

Maki, the female bar manager, has a dark side as a "yakuza woman" who supports Tetsuya of the Uradora clan of the Kanto region. Maki's true identity is accidentally revealed to Natsumi ...

A horror film by Kaneto Shindō follows Yone and her daughter-in-law Shige, who live in a house, are raped and murdered by a ...

Although yakuza movies were once a very popular genre, only a handful have been made in recent years. The two new ones show how real-life changes are now affecting those in the underworld.