The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force — the yakuza.

Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realises that even within the organisation, opinions are as varie...