893239

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893239 or "Yakuza-Nijusan-Ku" is the project name for a collection of short movies based on Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) and 23-区 (Ku, or special wards) in Tokyo, Japan. Each clip is about 5-18 minutes long and is shot by a different director with his own crew from various backgrounds.

The project covers almost all the 23 wards in Tokyo with an extra episode shot in the City of Torrance (which has the biggest Japanese population in the USA) in Los Angeles County. This project was promoted through its official website with trailers and through YouTube where each entire movie is shown. Source: What's 893239?

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[edit] Background

[edit] Film shooting

The movies were shot and edited between 2005 and 2006 by 23 different producers in one of the 26 wards in Tokyo which they liked to shoot a movie about.

[edit] Media exposure

During the first promotion phase (Nov.27-Feb.14), the movies were in Japanese only, but English Subtitled versions were added in early February 2007. (These newly added versions were planned to be broadcasted on YouTube until the end of February 2007.) January 28, 2007 Yahoo!Japan announced in its MOVIE section that 893239 collections had over 100,000 accesses on YouTube. (Source: Link January 28, 2007 Sports Houchi (daily newspaper) had its first coverage on 893239.

[edit] Filmmakers

[edit] Film collections

English Title" (Original Title) Alphabetical order by English title. (Film Runtime: MM:SS)

[edit] See also

[edit] Reference

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