Yakuza Rough Trade


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Yakuza Rough Trade

“To show things as they are”

—Donald Richie,
A Hundred
Years of Japanese Film


Violence is cool—

Cool is nonverbal like a

Manga fantasy


The storyboard tale—

An assemblage of action

Discrete quick sex

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No chronology—

Little linkage, much assumed

Sadomasochism


Viewers emotion—

Beside the point: being it =

To be out of it

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S & M cool—

Not the despised uetto (wet)

But dorai (dry) other


Manga / anime—

Uninvolved & devolving

Popular youth flicks

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Violence is chic—

Like Quentin Tarantino

Uninvolved / untouched


The danger is safe—

Insulated narrative

Manga rough-trade love

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Fast / familiar—

The only narrative that

Most young people know


Bite-sized comix frames—

Action chronology drives

The quick storyline

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He tied me up and—

Got me stoned & out of it

Yakuza gangster


Ruthless, relentless—

Stoic, static camera

Pensive cool sketches

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He is yakuza—

Aestheticized violence

Interests him


Subdued violence—

Young tough gangster roughtrade

I fell in love bad

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It was manga sex—

It turned me on tied-up tight

Yakuza boyfriend


Expressionless thing—

A lot of pent-up tension

Wanting to come out

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Blood-bath excesses—

Jitsuoroku-eign jizz

Unstoppable style


A slow hit-mission—

Facial muscles-moving

Reduced to know pain

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Singularly detached—

Coolness generating cool

Manga-like feelings


Like “Reservoir Dogs”—

Macho romanticism

Turns & looks away

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Static camera—

Manga filmic narrative

One-shot-one-scene style

Takes in the action—

No matter how bad it looks

Simple contrast rules…

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Violent contrast—

Between static S/M scenes

And mayhem-filled shots


Simmering silence—

Timed bursts trademark violence

Gangster chic costumes

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Minimal acting—

No over-the-top action

Getting into me


Too hot for the gangs—

Taking his time with me tho

Yakuza rough trade


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