Episode 7: Yakuzathon II (Tokyo Vice edition)
Tokyo Vice author and ex-Yomiuri Shimbun reporter Jake Adelstein sat down for an interview with us and talked about the yakuza, his planned second book, The Last Yakuza, and our review selection for this episode, Juzo Itami’s 1992 anti-yakuza flick Minbo no Onna, and more!
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Japan Subculture Research Center
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Special thanks to our friends at Wild Grounds for providing music for this episode.
About The Author
Jon Jung
Jon Jung (aka “Coffin Jon”) is the producer and host of the VCinema podcast and editor-in-chief of the VCinema blog. He is an avid movie fan who specializes in Japanese cinema, but enjoys everything from artsy high-brow to mega-billion blockbusters to straight-to-video turds. As an Asian-American, he got the best of all cinematic worlds as a child by receiving mega-doses of Ozu, Bruce Lee, Kamen Rider, and American drive-in movies in addition to a steady diet of punk rock, Japanese literature, and Buddhism. He spent six years in Japan as an English teacher and translator. In 2004, he returned to the United States to complete his Masters in Language Education and continue his career as a language educator and cultural anthropologist with a focus on language policy and language shift. Jon is a former Myrle Clark Award recipient for excellence in creative writing and has contributed to World Film Locations: Tokyo (Intellect, 2011).