The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Negotiation Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza

The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Negotiation Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza

2007 · 75 min

For yakuza, negotiation is another life-or-death battlefield. How do they turn the tables in overwhelmingly unfavorable situations, convincing black to be white? What supports their astonishing negotiation tactics? With methods like logical arguments, complaints, provocations, accusations, and nitpicking, their negotiation style hides secret techniques that are now unveiled!!

Directed by Kensuke Tsukuda

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