More Yakuza 0 thoughts

• It’s not just Japanese faces and types, especially in the Osaka-based area it’s an interesting presentation of Chinese and Korean people from a Japanese perspective
• (a disproportionate share of Yakuza are ethnic Koreans or else burakumin, the outcast caste ethnically indistinguishable from other Yamato, the dominant “Japanese” ethnicity)
• Used to Majima from Kiwami as a figure of wacky fun; weird to take him seriously as a tragic figure bonding with a sex slave over being tortuously disfigured; interesting to find that “slugger” and “breaker” were real fighting styles
• Interesting how Yakuza fashion in ‘88 Tokyo is shiny fabrics and fancy tailoring and in more hayseed Osaka it’s like, checked fabric suits that “meant” the same kinda rube tryhard thing in America