Gambling with the Nation: Heroines of the Japanese Yakuza Film, 1955–1975
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DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2017.1373015
Abstract: ABSTRACT A revamped period-drama film genre surfaced after the Allied occupation of Japan (1945–1952), featuring androgynous comic heroines who cross-dressed to perform male and female yakuza roles. By the late 1960s, they had been replaced… read more here.
Keywords: female yakuza; yakuza film; genre; gambling nation ... See more keywords