893239


893239 or Yakuza-Nijūsan-Ku is the project name for a collection of short films based on Yakuza and 23 ku 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 in Los Angeles County. This project was promoted through its official website with trailers and through YouTube where each entire movie is shown.

Background

Film shooting

The films 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, the movies were in Japanese only, but English-subtitled versions were added in early February 2007.
January 28, 2007 Yahoo!Japan announced in its MOVIE section that 893239 collections had over 100,000 accesses on YouTube. Sports Houchi 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" Alphabetical order by English title.
  • 893239 Meguro-ku "As for the Fingers" 1/2 05:16 2/2 06:20
  • 893239 Shibuya-ku "BE HAPPY" 07:40
  • 893239 Nakano-ku "Beyond the FOREST of MAN" 04:36
  • 893239 Suginami-ku "Bluce of Koenji" 07:41
  • 893239 Setagaya-ku "Dai Chan" 1/2 06:38 2/2 06:09
  • 893239 Koutou-ku "FUKAGAWA" 1/2 05:32 2/2 07:12
  • 893239 Adachi-ku "Hooligan is beautiful" 06:33
  • 893239 Toshima-ku "Ikebukuro Violence Zone~Elevated Passageway of Man~" 07:57
  • 893239 Itabashi-ku "INFERNO" 05:00
  • 893239 Ota-ku "Jin, Hiroki and Me, A Sister" 10:57
  • 893239 Los Angeles "Last Call～last episode～" 10:04　Directed by Satoshi Nakagawa
  • 893239 Sumida-ku "Local Industry of Sumida" 10:58
  • 893239 Suginami-ku "NO BORDER, NO 893" 05:11
  • 893239 Chiyoda-ku "Overdose -the documentary" 10:49
  • 893239 Taito-ku "Pearl" *Original version has been deleted by YouTube
  • 893239 Adachi-ku "Revenge" 1/2 05:31 2/2 07:16
  • 893239 Sumida-ku "Running Flamenco" 10:25 Starred by
  • 893239 Shinjuku-ku "Shinjuku-park" 08:33 *Directed by Junya Okabe
  • 893239 Nerima-ku "Shooting Yakuza" 10:59 *Directed by Macoto Tezuka
  • 893239 Minato-ku "Sweet Knife" 07:43
  • 893239 Katsushika-ku "Today Event" 07:57
  • 893239 Kita-ku "Too Nervous Finger" 1/2 08:24 2/2 08:50
  • 893239 Shibuya-ku "What is this......" 07:22
  • 893239 Edogawa-ku "Yakuza's Delivery" 09:38