Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter | Shoko Tendo

Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter | Shoko Tendo | Sad and Inspiring Tale, Average Writing

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	Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter Shoko Tendo Kodansha International, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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Yakuza Moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-year-old Shoko Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison and her family fell into terrible debt. Bullied by classmates and terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, Tendo rebelled. A regular visitor to nightclubs at the age of 12, she soon became a drug addict and a member of a girl gang. At 15 she was sentenced to eight months in a juvenile detention center.
Adulthood brought big bucks and glamour when Tendo started working as a bar hostess during Japan's booming bubble economy of the nineteen-eighties. But among her many rich and loyal patrons there were also abusive clients, one of whom beat her so badly that her face was left permanently scarred. When her mother died, Tendo plunged into such a deep depression that she tried to commit suicide twice.
Tendo takes us through the bad times with warmth and candor, and gives a moving and inspiring account of how she overcame a lifetime of discrimination and hardship. Getting tattooed, from the base of her neck to the tips of her toes, with a design centered on a geisha with a dagger in her mouth, was an act that empowered her to start making changes in her life. She quit her job as a hostess. On her last day at the bar she looked up at the full moon, a sight she never forgot. The moon became a symbol of her struggle to become whole, and the title of the book she wrote as an epitaph for herself and her family.

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Shoko Tendo is Amazing

Yakuza Moon by Shoko Tendo is an excellent novel. Her memoirs kept me reading and shocked me at times. Her life is very interesting and intertwined with the Japanese mafia made it all the better. If your into true life stories, the Yakuza, and aren't afraid to be shocked then I recommend this book.

Sad and Inspiring Tale, Average Writing

Her life story was interesting, sad, and compelling to read. I thought this book was a good insight to 1980's-90's Sub-Culture in Japan. This book was an easy read, and the writing is a little Below par, but don't let that make you not give this book a whirl. I give it a B. I have lent it to a friend, who also likes it as well*

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Yakuza Moon - Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter

Entertaining read, a very short rushed biography i thought it was not detailed as a biography should be.

Good, but...

It's a good book. But it doesn't tell anything amazing neither explain anything about yakuza. In an interview, Shoko told about some conflicts because of her non-yakuza husband, but it doesn't appear in the book, it could be an interesting point.
Most interesting chapter is the last one "How Full is the Moon?" by Manabu Miyazaki when he explain some things.

But one can read this book very fast, I think it's worth buying. It's not expensive.

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