History Film / YakuzaGraveyard

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Kuroiwa's FreudianExcuse

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Kuroiwa is forced by truth serum to give up Iwata, leading to his death. Shunned by the Yakuza, he walks into headquarters and demands that his Chief confess to his corruption, gunning him down when he refuses. He turns, walks out of the police station, gets within sight of Keiko, then his old friend runs out after him and kills him when he refuses to stop]]

* StopOrIWillShoot: Kuroiwa's shooting incident, two years before the film. Also, [[spoiler: Kuroiwa himself, having just gunned down a police chief in the middle of headquarters]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Kuroiwa superiors, corrupt as they are, denounce him for getting so involved with Yakuza, and for his other less-than-upstanding moments. However, it's quite clear that whatever moral indignation they have, they are also acting out of self-interest: they're worried about public shame, and they supporting the rival gang.

Detective Kuroiwa [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents is a loose cannon cop on the edge, who doesn't pla-ay by the rules]]. He beats suspects, threatens to plant evidence, brawls casually, has a violent temper, and even [[CharacterTic drives his fist into his palm]] in front of his superiors when they chew him out. This man is the ''epitome'' of a CowboyCop.

Strongly implied to be the product of prejudice (the neighborhood kids would beat him up for being raised in [[ImperialJapan Manchuria]], despite being pureblooded Japanese), Kuroiwa drinks like a fish, is usually in conflict with his superiors, and is in a dead-end relationship with a prostitute whose lover he killed in the line of duty.

* UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan: Averted. Keiko is half-Korean, and Iwata is full-Korean. Anti-Korean prejudice is touched on when Keiko visits her husband in prison. When she asks him to temporarily hand over Yakuza leadership to Iwata he, thinking that he's being betrayed, starts screaming racial abuse at her and has to be dragged from the room. Keiko has a HeroicBSOD soon after.
** Iwata, before taking a blood brother-type oath with Kuroiwa, informs him that he's full-blooded Korean and asks if he still wants to take the oath. Kuroiwa responds "With all my heart."
* [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident Make It Look Like An Attempted Escape]]

* NoKoreansInJapan: Averted. Keiko is half-Korean, and Iwata is full-Korean. Anti-Korean prejudice is touched on when Keiko visits her husband in prison. When she asks him to temporarily hand over Yakuza leadership to Iwata he, thinking that he's being betrayed, starts screaming racial abuse at her and has to be dragged from the room. Keiko has a HeroicBSOD soon after.
** Iwata, before taking a blood brother-type oath with Kuroiwa, informs him that he's full-blooded Korean and asks if he still wants to take the oath. Kuroiwa responds "With all my heart."

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Kuroiwa is forced by truth serum to give up Iwata, leading to his death. Shunned by the Yakuza, he walks into headquarters and demands that his Chief confess to his corruption, gunning him down when he refuses. He turns, walks out of the police station, gets within sight of Keiko, then his old friend runs out after him and kills him when he refuses to stop]]

* [[spoiler: TruthSerums: Kuroiwa is injected with one.]]

Detective Kuroiwa [[TheFairlyOddparents is a loose cannon cop on the edge, who doesn't pla-ay by the rules]]. He beats suspects, threatens to plant evidence, brawls casually, has a violent temper, and even [[CharacterTic drives his fist into his palm]] in front of his superiors when they chew him out. This man is the ''epitome'' of a CowboyCop.

Yakuza Graveyard is a 1976 [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yakuza film]] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

* {{Yakuza}}