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Japanese Gangster films. There are basically two sorts of yakuza films: Those set in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, with traditional dress and swords and knives. Modern day, 50s/60s/70s, with guns. The modern ones can then be split with the noir influenced, Japanese New Wave style from the 60s - i.e. the Seijun Suzuki , Nikkatsu films. Then there are the more violent 70s films, and the later Takeshi Kitano style films from the 80s and 90s. (Films like the Zatoichi series, or Red Peony Gambler, are included as Samurai films - though the characters are yakuza, they fight samurai with swords.)

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Japanese Gangster films . There are basically two sorts of yakuza films -  Those set in the late 19th / early 20th centuries , with traditional dress and swords and knives . Modern day , 50s / 60s / 70s , with guns .The modern ones can then be split with the noir influenced , Japanese New Wave style from the 60s - ie the Seijun Suzuki , Nikkatsu films . Then there are the more violent 70s films , and the later Takeshi Kitano style films from the 80s and 90s . ( Films like the Zatoichi series , or Red Peony Gambler , are included as Samurai films - though the characters are yakuza , they fight samurai with swords . ) Not in any order . 

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