Yakuza: Good For Nothing (DOKU)

Yakuza: Good For Nothing

Yakuza mobster Mr. Makoto now talks openly about his life. He joined the crime syndicate because he was too lazy to work a real job: ‘I even got up early. But then I got fed up with everything'.

At the end of the 20th century, Yakuza was a powerful crime organisation. Their gangsters did not hide, and even had their own offices and employees. In 1992, the authorities decided to fight them. Japan passed a law allowing members of the Yakuza clan to be arrested at any time. Makoto is now unable to get a credit card or rent a flat. He has been married three times, but is now divorced and raising his son on his own. He adds that he does not want his child to repeat his fate. However, if his son decides to become a gangster, the father won’t mind: ‘I don't want to explain to my child what it is until he becomes a Yakuza himself.’

On Culture Day in Japan watch Yakuza: Good For Nothing to find more about the criminal life of a Japanese man and what it led him to.

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