893239

893239

893239 DVD Cover
Directed by Multiple directors
Produced by Koji Tsujimoto, Jingu-mae Produce
Based on Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) and 23-区
Starring Multiple actors
Country Japan
Language Japanese

893239 or Yakuza-Nijusan-Ku is the project name for a collection of short films 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.[1]

Background

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.

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 broadcast 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.[2] Sports Houchi (daily newspaper) had its first coverage on 893239.

Filmmakers

Film collections

As of August 2007, most of these were seemingly removed from YouTube by their uploaders.

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "What's 893239?" (in Japanese). Retrieved December 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20110720032400/http://cache.yahoofs.jp/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%E3%82%84%E3%81%8F%E3%81%9623&u=movies.yahoo.co.jp/m2%3Fty=nd&id=20070128-00000057-sph-ent&w=%22vc:%E3%82%84%E3%81%8F%E3%81%96+23%22&d=OJuGhOxsOPXm&icp=1&.intl=jp. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2007. Missing or empty |title= (help) Dated January 28, 2007
  3. ↑ "Insomniac Dream Films". Archived from the original on October 23, 2009.

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