Young Yakuza

Young Yakuza

2007 · 90 min · ★ 5.9 · Action, Documentary

Meet the Japanese Mafia's latest son: a 20 year old named Naoki, part of a surging, decade-long wave of juvenile delinquency in Japan. As Naoki rejects school, jobs and family, his desperate mother decides to take one last chance to save him--by handing him over to the Mafia for one year and letting him choose his own path.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin

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