No Meishis For Gangsters

[Mulboyne]

[Bucky]

We print all that crap. Maybe we should start marketing our services to the Yaks. Of course they'd need to be OK with importing from the U.S.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Printers in Hyogo prefecture have announced they will refuse all work requested by yakuza groups...

Well, I guess that's gonna put an end to organized crime in Hyogo Prefecture once and for all...

...Seriously, though, methinks Hyogo printers were maybe not getting much underworld business in the first place if they can afford to come out publicly to declare they will turn away potential customers in these times in what is a dying industry.

[Mulboyne]

...Seriously, though, methinks Hyogo printers were maybe not getting much underworld business in the first place if they can afford to come out publicly to declare they will turn away potential customers in these times in what is a dying industry.

The new anti-yakuza ordinances now put the onus on businesses to avoid doing business with mobsters so most industries are making similar pronouncements. I haven't heard anything yet from the Nippon Tattoo Kyokai.

In theory, even Dominos should refuse to deliver a pizza to a known gangster but no-one yet knows how far the police will go in punishing business links with the mob.

[Samurai_Jerk]

In theory, even Dominos should refuse to deliver a pizza to a known gangster but no-one yet knows how far the police will go in punishing business links with the mob.

I'm wondering how businesses are supposed to decide who is and is not a gangster when it's not an illicit activity or a transaction that's as obvious as printing cards that say Yamaguchi-gumi. This seems like a very bass ackwards way of going after organized crime.

[iHUMAN]

The 83,000 or so yakuza operating in 22 crime syndicates don't need no fucking meishi to introduce themselves.

[Iraira]

The new anti-yakuza ordinances now put the onus on businesses to avoid doing business with mobsters so most industries are making similar pronouncements. I haven't heard anything yet from the Nippon Tattoo Kyokai.

In theory, even Dominos should refuse to deliver a pizza to a known gangster but no-one yet knows how far the police will go in punishing business links with the mob.

If some guy with the punch perm and tats walks in and asks for business cards, yeah, sure, he's obvious (maybe). But, not all yaks looks like they just fell off a Juzo Itami movie set. Couldn't the proprietor of a business accused of doing business with a yak just claim "I didn't realize that the customer was a member of an anti-social element"?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

But, not all yaks looks like they just fell off a Juzo Itami movie set...

Off topic, but isn't that how the quirky auteur actually topped himself (upon being caught fiddling around with another woman, IIRC?)...?

[Iraira]

Off topic, but isn't that how the quirky auteur actually topped himself (upon being caught fiddling around with another woman, IIRC?)...?

I wish I could take credit for consciously choosing the phrase "fell off of", but yeah, one could say he jumped off a building after it was reported that he had an affair....another could say he had several (5) people with punch perms help him exit the building in a manner in which gravity hastened said exiting of building. (I Wikipedia'd)

[2triky]

I wish I could take credit for consciously choosing the phrase "fell off of", but yeah, one could say he jumped off a building after it was reported that he had an affair....another could say he had several (5) people with punch perms help him exit the building in a manner in which gravity hastened said exiting of building. (I Wikipedia'd)

Definitely murdered.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Holy shit! Didn't know that, but remembered he was attacked by yakuza.

Itami's movies were tremendous. I loved some of the quirky Japanese stuff from the bubble/early post-bubble era, with his flicks leading the way.

Can still remember watching A Taxing Woman on multi-cultural TV in Oz in the '80s (sandwiched between a couple of French movies with little dialog, lots of cigarette smoking, pregnant pauses, unleashed tits and hairy armpits -- and you should have seen what the women were doing in them!!!)

[2triky]

Holy shit! Didn't know that, but remembered he was attacked by yakuza.

Itami's movies were tremendous. I loved some of the quirky Japanese stuff from the bubble/early post-bubble era, with his flicks leading the way.

Can still remember watching A Taxing Woman on multi-cultural TV in Oz in the '80s (sandwiched between a couple of French movies with little dialog, lots of cigarette smoking, pregnant pauses, unleashed tits and hairy armpits -- and you should have seen what the women were doing in them!!!)

A great comedy.