marurun wrote:Xeogred wrote:Glad Yakuza 0 was uncensored. And yeah I guess this is all a testament to the series' accuracy, I do think some of the staff have real yakuza connections or something haha.
Japan lacks conspiracy laws of the sort that allow other countries to go after organized crime, so the police really don't have many tools to use to go after them. The Yakuza are indeed very well-connected as a result. Konami's founding family is rumored to be involved with the Yakuza, and given how their company has doubled down on gambling machines that would make a lot of sense since the Yakuza are often involved with various forms of gambling. Sega is also in that business, so I suspect they do have connections. I don't know how well-studied the Yakuza are in Japan, but the book Tokyo Vice is all about them. You can bet someone at Sega read that book.
Tokyo Vice, I might have to look into that. I'm genuinely pretty fascinated about it all.
I've heard good things about Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza movies and they're apparently fairly accurate.
I might have 2k I can use from a PayFlex account to put towards my surgery bills. Finally some good news.
