Guy visits a Yakuza Tattoo Parlour | Guy Martin Proper 

I lived in Japan for 4 years. Most Japanese are polite, very respectful and overall genuinely nice. It was a night and day difference from western societies.

I can say the same for Mindanao, in the Philippines. Lovely people, spent probabaly around 8 months there in total so far and as soon as I come home to the UK it feels so Soviet... Everybody is so cold and moody and just... Miserable. Most beautiful people you will meet

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He is a Cornholio

he said like 4 words in english, and you got that he seems like he is a nice guy? who knows what kind of person he is. he was polite, but polite doesnt make you a "nice guy". it just means your not an animal. im not saying he isnt a nice guy, im just saying it takes more then 2 seconds to figure that out.

@@140aj he is dead dumbass

@@140aj Ouija Board

How do u make a appointment 🥺

people literally just contact yakuza and such ?

Rest In Peace 🙏

@Boa-Noah Also our Guy looked like he was wincing a bit...lol

@Thomas Cruise No it doesn't, at least try not to be rude when you're wrong. In both scenarios needles enter you skin, but it's clearly not at the same rate (and not with the same strength) when you use a machine. It's easier to damage the skin. He wasn't lying, it doesn't hurt as much, it's softer for the skin that's why healing takes 2 weeks instead of 1 month. That said long sessions aren't a peace of cake, it get really annoying after a few hours.

Boban Goranović i think cause different parts of your body have different levels of pain. The shoulder is an easy spot

Boban Goranović I can ensure you that tattoos hurts like hell

I’ve been tattoo g for 20 years. When they can’t keep their feet and toes still, they’re are certainly are in pain.

😂

Lol

Wait Mum am about to cum see yah in a minute

Oh no

Haha dead 😂😂

Fuck em & feed them fish heads

it's not the police you have to be affraid of, it's the yakuza. if they spot you with a yakuza tattoo, especially as a gaijin, rest assured they'll do what it take to remove it from you in the most gruesome, painfull, and creative way they can think of.

@Danger Mouse sure, go ahead and try then, it's a well known fact that stealing gang's colors always turn out just fine for you.

@Danger Mouse Youre assuming he's saying something he has no idea about while you're the one who doesnt know anything about it. I can tell you for a fact that gangs dont like people having tattoos of them if they arent in said gang.

Mildly amusing format and name. Nobody: I can tell you for a fact...

Why cos he mentioned to a person he had a camera crew?

@@bfc2155 No because he switched from attempting to speak Japanese to "I've got the lads with us" like they guy is gunna understand what he means.

@@Kjca_1998 its still weird not to say anything its better than nothing he cant speak japanese obviously

@@shinren_ I just found it funny mate, that's it.

As an Aussie I found it funny as. And Northerners are good people.

@Haysus Crist shoes are dirty and their house floors are often mats which would be easily soiled by whatever is on your shoes.

@Haysus Crist they're very clean and take pride in it, what james v said also sounds right.

@Haysus Crist japanese culture separates the clen (the house) and the dirty (the outside, and the bathroom toilet) in an extremely strict form. They even have special designated slippers for the bathroom, that you wear only when you go inside the bathroom.

It's the same in many countries.. not as strict, but in Sweden it's also considered rude to walk inside with your shoes.

@Haysus Crist well, "contaminating" someone in such a fashion, especially on public transport (where density of people in an enclosed space is off the chain) it would be equivalent to flipping someone off. But then again how do you expect such high numbers of people per unit space to coexist if they don't mind such things?

Possibly motivated by all the businesses or business owners they are involved with, just because they did that doesn't make them better.

I'm a big fan of Japan and I've heard so many stories of Westerners in bars and Yakuza have bought them drinks and treated them amazingly well. Yakuza are brilliant to foreigners visiting the country.

@@overthewebb Been here 20 years now and my very first Japanese friend was a Yakuza. A genuinely nice fella who paid for everything and all he wanted in return, was for me to write a letter for him, to his non-Japanese wife. Not all Yakuza are friendly, but they won't bother you either. Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

@@TheRoflSandwich if, and it's a massive 'IF', businesses pay the Yakuza, they would absolutely get top service. However, as it's illegal to pay them just because you have a business, it's unlikely. The vast majority of rebuilding work is done through legitimate companies that the Yakuza owns, from insurance payouts. As Guy says in this video, "It's organised crime." and that's not illegal here.

Yes the yakuza in a sense are like a government that dont hide secrets.

Great lad

@BLUE DOG he is saying Guy respectful to Japanese culture.

Yeah, he is not an idiot.

He didn't even take his shoes of inside house, he don't know that much bout se Asia!

Verizimo Corleone i didn’t know that! do you know why?

@@hannahcatesilver2154 maybe the colors they use. The colors are more traditional and natural made ink. There's this documentary that i watched not long ago about tebori. The artist said that the ink pops after some years as for modern tattoos the colors dull out or worse disappears

@@hannahcatesilver2154 It has to do more with the way the ink is placed under the skin. I can't remember the exact detail but there's a lot of great handpoke artists out there who's color stays vibrant with time as well.

@@TheOneWaffle You're right, I sure don't have some scientific reports, but tebori and handpoke are softer for the skin. Artists say they don't go as deep (would make sense, since the process is softer you don't have to go as deep, because healing is easier), so less skin gets in the way. They seem more vibrant because they're closer from the surface level.

@@TheOneWaffle No it doesn't hahahaa clearly not a tattooist are you?

Last Time i visited a tattooing Studio or how it's called in english they wanted 1200 Euro for an easy tribal on my shoulder. I should visit Japan...

@@reeno1357 should of told the to f off, trying to rip you off or stop you from making the mistake of getting a tribal tattoo lol.

perkelepower RIP

what has guy done to deserve suffering that?

What about those three idiots

@Bob Dobalina I like Clarkson, but he wouldn't go well with Guy. Clarkson is too boisterous and too loud, May is a better choice as they're both quieter and more respectful of what's going on around them.

They both love motorcycles and are mechanically minded, I think they would have a lot in common - personality wise not so much. =)

Holy shit! Them too together chatting for an hour would be in history for ever!

Did you know he also has aspergers? He has adapted seriously well to social interactions, you would never know he had it. Great bloke.

I did not know! What a guy eh. Even when life tries to hold him back, he continues to defy the odds

That snapping sound is coming from the gloves not the skin. Still skeevy though.

It was kinda relaxing for me

if you close your eyes it sounds like.......you know

@@FirstnameLastname-dm2xl like a fist in a mayo jar

I kinda liked it.

Loop Nugz you’re amazing

this was pretty old like 2012 or 14

Tattoos don't hurt that much and honestly I'd love to try that technique on me one day

I have a shoulder tattoo.. I didnt feel it at all, like no kidding, it was like he was dragging a blunt object across my skin. ribcage and sternum.. now those hurt like a buttcheeck on a stick

@@CrashOver97 buttcheecks eh? XDD i am on the floor mate and i don't even know why XD

dont talk shite you can see in the way hes blinking he's in great pain he's just slavering pish for the camera

fyi I have my whole arm, shoulder and neck tattooed and the place he got tattooed didnt hurt for me either. I fell asleep during thesession and my tattooer thought I passed out.

@Tranquilate Some old bathplaces might still not let you in with tattoos and some older people still may judge.

@Tranquilate Many tourists go to onsens.

@Tranquilate i live in Japan for the last 20 years and i can assure you that 95 % of japanese people visit onsens * public bath ) on a regular basis ,there is even an onsen in most gyms in Japan .I personally love going there its like a nice spa but it cost only $4 a 5$

Next thing ya know some people walk up to goin. Thug: OI!!!

Gets a stalker with an eyepatch coming outta bins and trash cans too lmao

Phones listening

Would you mind recommending some good Japan themed games?

@@lefu7812 if you haven't played any of the Yakuza games I recommend them.

I beat the first Yakuza game and am gonna start the next one

Commentator Yt ten hours worth of work, roughly $90 an hour... I spent some money that day. A lot of folks don’t really see the layers in my tattoo, but the detail up-close is pretty impressive.

In Japan I guess no one does.

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@@m1lkydudz 1:11

Errr .... no. You'd rarely have to wait beyond 2 or 3 months. It would be unacceptable to have to wait longer.

@@ThatGaijinFella Imagine doing a full bodysuit and having to do another within two months, that's ridiculous. That means the guy'd maybe have a week to design before his next appointment and a week is not nearly enough to plan out a fully detailed bodysuit.

Vec a full body suit takes months if not years. You think he only does one tattoo all at once? I am friends with a guy here in south west japan that does this, and his waiting list is not longer than 4 months!

@@ThatGaijinFella Never said he does one at a time, but you can't do many at the same time since they're all different and it's intricate work.

Fear? It's just a tattoo.

@@TheJohnboyhunter it's similar to yakuza tattoos which the gang doesn't like people having unless they are part of the gang. Sometimes they "remove" the tattoos from people that aren't yakuza

Suano ni I LOVE YOU

The Japanese as a whole are ethically Korean. The Japanese came from Korea before they settled the islands.

@@overthewebbmakes sense

@@overthewebb - a lot of Japanese would disagree with you. The vast majority of them came from China, Korea and other Asian nations. But they'll never admit to that!

@@overthewebb As a whole? lol. Japanese are mix of aborigine, Chinese, Koreans, South East Asians and several ethnicity. Korea is just one of them.

@@Daviysoh Not really, there was a 'native' Japanese who moved in around 1000 BC, the rest came from South Korea in the Modern times. There isn't some mix.

Diego it depends on how elaborate the tattoo is more elaborate means more time, have full sleeve myself done with modern tattoo machines took about 28 hours spread out over a couple months, but traditional irezumi is a much longer and more painful process so plan for around at the very least 16 hours probably spread out over multiple visits

Crazy or not, just look at the details of tattoo, they are insanely high quality.

hope u can take pain

@@v6valkyrie this is a whole different level of pain , its like ur getting poked by a rusty needle thats on fire hundred times a second

You learn very quickly to be humble when just about all your customers are the Japanese mafia.

Properties and renting are extremely expensive, especially to big city like Tokyo and Osaka. Plus, i'm sure the yakuza mobsters would prefer something more intimate and private than an open studios, it can't help when the nation as a whole is leaning the introvert, solitude lifestyle rather than an extrovert, social ones. If you play at 1:06 you can see that he display lots of artwork in his room, that's a show of pride. Tl;DR. His apartment could be his studios, and it's not weird, it's a culture, not just a japanese one, it's a Japanese yakuza one and some takes very serious about it.

i have over 10 tattoos. if im going to Japan? me personally i want that tattoo the TRADITIONAL Japanese way. old school. if you're gonna go and get a tattoo with a tattoo gun wtf is the point?

@@severusc6929 Because some of the best Japanese traditionalists are still in Japan and they use guns lol?

Where do you get the impression that "there's plenty of "normal" tattoo shops u can go to" here in Japan? It would be a waste of time and money to set up a shop on a public high street here for this purpose, as business would be next to none! My friend Horikazu's shop is a traditional Japanese white building, which from the outside looks like a restaurant. His clients come from all over Japan and other countries. He started out in an apartment too. Getting tattoos here is still very much frowned upon and therefore not publicly available as in other countries.

I bet the atmosphere changes when you walk into the bar......

Lmao, pussy

Jason Bouphasavanh cuz I’m Japanese

@skankhunt42 it's literally a fucking meme you pussyass bitch

Yakuza are peculiar as a concept because they are green lit by the government, And this is only possible in Japan because they are organised Yakuza are peculiarly Japanese

Go to a parlour for tourists then it'll be really expensive

@Hlinkova Garda what do i search for

@@marzecs Secret tattoo place

yeah i need the name of artist or the artist place..

@@v6valkyriethat's not horiyoshii lll

Oh rly

@@lochvids108 yes. Some people travel just for their tattoo method and style.

You’re wrong, my brother studied there for 4 years got many tattoos, he often gets dirty looks and hears people on the trains talking about him thinking he can’t understand

@@prof_aw3som014 haha how long ago was that?

You couldn’t be further from the truth.