38 min

027 - Unlucky Hand: The Yakuza The History of Organized Crime

    • Society & Culture

After the unification of Japan, under the Tokugawa Shogun, two groups of low tier society become the seeds planted for the Yakuza. They have a long journey before them, but the inspiration of one man, leads another who lives in the area between the political and the criminal worlds. By doing so, he accidently finds one of the worlds most dangerous organized crime syndicates, who are possibly more powerful than the modern day Mafia.

After the unification of Japan, under the Tokugawa Shogun, two groups of low tier society become the seeds planted for the Yakuza. They have a long journey before them, but the inspiration of one man, leads another who lives in the area between the political and the criminal worlds. By doing so, he accidently finds one of the worlds most dangerous organized crime syndicates, who are possibly more powerful than the modern day Mafia.

38 min

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