AAKASH.STUDIOCHICAGO, US

Yakuza

A 42-SECOND SHORT FILM, ITS DIRECTOR'S PITCH AND ITS MOTION POSTERS

CONCEPT / SHORT FILMCOMPLETE

The project

YAKUZA is a forty-two-second short film in ten scenes. An old boss is being fitted for a suit in a tailor's house at the edge of the forest when one word arrives: someone is coming. Nobody runs and nobody raises a voice. The studio made the story, the edit and the titles, and built a director's pitch and a set of motion posters around it.

Rural Japan, late autumn. A family runs its business out of an old tailor's house: suits upstairs, money in the room below. The young men drive, wait and count. The tone is rain, gravel, black cars and one warm flame. Every image is AI concept work made in Higgsfield and animated in Kling; the edit, the titles and the pitch are the studio’s.

Client
Yakuza
Year
2026
Role
Director — story, edit and titles
Services
Short film, Director's pitch, Titles, Motion posters
Status
Complete

The film

The director's pitch

Director's pitch, Act I cover: black cars in the mist outside the tailor's house, the title ヤクザ YAKUZA in red, and the premise in a column beside it.
The world slide: 親分と若衆, an old boss and young men who wait, with the four characters — the oyabun, the tailor, the young men and the messenger.
Scene 01, 待機 The Wait: four men in long coats beside black Centuries on wet gravel, with the scene's timecode and notes.
Scene 01 coverage: a contact sheet of frames pulled from the takes for the wait.
Scene 04, 白手袋 The Gloves: white cotton gloves pulled tight in the back of the car.
Act II cover, 危険 Danger: the oyabun being fitted as the messenger arrives, with the five scenes of the act listed.
Scene 06, 仮縫い The Fitting: the tattooed oyabun in a half-made jacket while the tailor pins it.
Scene 09, 勘定 The Count: men counting banded cash under one hanging lamp in the room below the shop.
The end card: the Act II cut list with timecodes, closing on the title ヤクザ YAKUZA.

Motion posters

Act I — 00:00—00:20

Four men wait beside three black cars. A convoy runs through the cedars, a pistol rests in a gloved hand, and one lighter flares on the back seat.

Scene 01: four men in dark coats talking beside black cars outside the tailor's house.
Scene 02: a black Century sliding side-on through the forest, exhaust hanging in the cold air.
Scene 04: white-gloved hands holding a nickel pistol in the back of the car.
Scene 05: a young man alone on the long back seat, lighting a cigarette against the grey window.

Act II — 00:21—00:42

The old boss is being fitted for a suit when one word arrives: danger. He does not turn around. Below the tailor's floor the money is counted, and the tailor ties four boxes.

Scene 06: the tattooed oyabun being fitted as the messenger in a brown suit crosses the room.
Scene 07: three men under black umbrellas walking across wet gravel toward the lit house.
Scene 09: men counting stacks of banded cash under a hanging lamp in a low room.
Scene 10: the old tailor tying grey boxes while a young man waits with a gloved hand behind his back.

Beyond the cut

Six scenes made for the film that did not fit in forty-two seconds, each placed where it would sit in a longer cut.

Beyond the Cut cover: 未公開, six unused scenes, over an overhead shot of men at a long table.
The longer film: a sixteen-scene running order, the ten in the cut marked filled and the six new ones open.

The titles and the motion

One title in red, ヤクザ over YAKUZA, and every other word small and white. The posters move four ways: a slow push, rising type, drawing rules and one pulse of the glow.

The pitch

Thirty-three slides in three sets, two per scene: the shot with its notes, then a contact sheet of the takes.

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