Good Fridays EII: Minbo no Onna Mondo Bad Media

Tackling the spectacular 1992 satire Minbo no Onna ("Extortion Woman"), Vik Vimes also touches on some interesting topics within the study of organized crime itself.

NYT article on Juzo Itami's death: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/movies/juzo-itami-64-filmmaker-who-directed-tampopo.html

Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Vice

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