Episode 583 - The Men of Chivalry, Part 3

History of Japan - A podcast by Isaac Meyer - Fridays

Categories:

This week: we take a look at the genre of the yakuza movie, or ninkyo eiga, which started off as a branch of the samurai film genre before becoming very much its own thing--and, for a decade  or so in the 1960s and 1970s, dominating the Japanese box office. Show notes here.