Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan by Robert Whiting(2000).
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Warner Bros. Takes on TOKYO UNDERGROUND
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Thursday, August 07, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan and has hired Frank Baldwin to adapt the true-life crime novel. Dan Lin is producing via his Warners-based Lin Pictures along with veteran producers Harry and Mary Jane Ufland.
Plot Concept: Published in 2000, the book centers on Nick Zappetti, an Italian-American from East Harlem who was part of the U.S. occupation forces sent to Japan after World War II. Believing that Tokyo offered certain opportunities, Zappetti had a failed stint as a wrestler, participated in a fumbled diamond heist and was deported. But he returned illegally and opened a pizza joint, which in the mid-'60s became the center of Tokyo's nightlife, and for the next 15 years, he became an integral part in the yakuza's rise to power.
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