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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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