I won’t watch yakuza movies with the same eyes again…
Apparently, Tokyo is facing a rapid increase in the number of former yakuza gangsters who’ve become homeless. They’re aggressive, flashing their tattoos, scaring passers-by and lording over other homeless.
Most of them have just got out of prison to discover that the gang they had belonged to before doing time had broken up while they were behind bars and now they are terrorizing other homeless people “living” in the same parks, asking them protection money.
If you don’t pay, an old man says, “he’ll come around in the middle of the night and harass you, like throwing a bucket full of water over you while you sleep.”
Via A.D. 2101.