This is pretty unlikely – certainly at the speed with which our hero achieves this distinction in the film.
Not only that, but Lowell quickly rises to become a member with key responsibilities – at one point he becomes the main boss’s bodyguard. Straight away, the strangest thing is that a foreigner – a gaijin – gets to become a member of a Yakuza family. From my observations there are a number of problems with the way the Yakuza is represented in the film. I was intrigued to see it for myself, having interviewed at least 30 members of a Yakuza family during two intense weeks in 2015 when I was researching the meaning of symbols in their tattoos. The Guardian dismissed the film as having “a fetishistic relationship to Japanese elements that could have only come from someone who sees them as exotic, rather than intuitively understanding their place in society”. The film centres on Nick Lowell (Jared Leto) – an American former prisoner of war who becomes a member of a Yakuza clan in 1950s Osaka. Netflix movie The Outsider has been widely criticised for a variety of reasons.
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