The Destroyer Tapes
Nick Zappetti – Tokyo Underworld
Potential Tokyo Underworld movie – edited interview selections shared with movie producers
- Sample A – Yoshiko
- Sample B 1945-1956 – Omura, Nagasaki “Geisha house”, Tokyo GHQ, first Japanese wife, Palace Heights, black market, deportation, Ginza Lansco gang, Imperial Hotel diamond robbery, Tokyo jail, Yoshiko 2, first wife, first Tokyo restaurant
- Sample C 1956-1964 – Rikidozan and Gang Boss Ginza Machii, additional unedited material (Machii, Copa/Night Club Stories, Frank Sinatra/Copa, Rolando Sessi, Getting The Kids Back From 1st wife, Dai-Nippon Ultranationalists)
- Sample D – various
- Sample E – Post-Olympic Tokyo, and other various
Complete collection of interview tapes with Nick Zappetti
- Nick Self-Recorded Tape: Early Years – East Haarlem, Marines, Tyrone Power, GHQ, black market beer, deportation, John McFarland and the Imperial Hotel diamonds
- Tape 1: 24th August 1989 – Includes Growing up, Omura, Tokyo GHQ, 1st Wife, black market, deportation, Lansco gang
- Tape 2: 24th August 1989 II – Includes Imperial Hotel diamond robbery, Yoshiko, trade discussion, Omura, first wife, first restaurant
- Tape 3: 28th & 31st August 1989 – Yoshiko, first wife, girls, Copa Cabana, Ginza Machii
- Tape 4: 31st August & 6th September 1989 – Lario murder, Nihon Kotsu
- Tape 5: 6th & 13th September 1989 – Nihon Kotsu settlement, Rikidozan, Miss Hokkaido
- Tape 6: 28th September 1989 – Lawyers, Japanese citizenship, Hokkaido ranch, Gaijin ballplayers, Hokkaido land
- Tape 7: 6th October 1989 – U.S.-Japan relations/trade, U.S.-Japan relations/marriage, business bribes and gifts, dope deal/Nepal ambassador’s son, sumo & other fixed matches, Alpha 66/FBI/pizza & pieces, Japanese citizenship, lawyer suit
- Tape 8: 13th October 1989 – Nihon Kotsu case first verdict, lawyer’s lawsuit, ballplayers, sex stories/carousing, Omura, red light yoshiwara & other occupation tales, King of Korea)
- Tape 9: 19th October 1989 – Leases, net worth
- Tape 10: 2nd October 1989 – Trade/Mitsubishi-Rockefeller, Yae, on doing business with the Japanese – boxing & bowling, on the Japanese, the restaurant business, U.S.-Japan trade problem: solutions, discrimination rant
- Tape 11: 9th November 1989 – Japanese v American, U.S-Japan trade
- Tape 12: 16th November 1989 – Narcotics, black market liquor, Ginza Machii, pimping-Hotel New York, Ginza Machii, Yokota gang & TSK, King of Korea, Roppongi, Trade & Donald Trump
- Tape 13: 3rd April 1991 – Miscellaneous, revenge fantasies and tacit book permission, Yokota-Tanashi details, other crimes and misdemeanors, growing up in mafia neighborhood, East Harlem family, miscellaneous–deported, early Roppongi, gangs, family life, Joe Dibello, Club 88, Nihon Kotsu, Ginza Machii, the book
- Tape 14: 17th April 1991 – Occupation era miscellaneous, King of Korea, Ginza Machii, Nick’s niece, post-war GI violence, etc, Shintaro Ishihara, gold scam, book reference, gold scam
- Tape 15: 17th April 1991 II – Net worth/Yae, pro-wrestling fix, Rikidozan character, wives; Miss Hokkaido & Yae, Yae, post-Olympic Tokyo, anti-Japanese feeling, gold scam, Buzz, Ginza Machii and Nick, “Mafia Boss” of Tokyo & Steve Dunleavy, miscellaneous/Annie, pig farming
- Tape 16: 8th May 1991 – Miscellaneous, bank loans, the crematorium, son/daughter/grandkids/1st wife pig farming, Yokosuka fight, Crazy Wong, MacFarland, business ventures/turkeys, Johnny Simonetti, other ventures, IOS/Massey/Doniaff/Private Eye Co
- Tape 17: 15th May 1991 – Japanese, Of Faxes (Stolen & Otherwise) and word processors, laser eye treatment, income tax BS
- Tape 18: 31st May 1991 – Tearing down the Hokkaido farm, log cabins, Crazy Wong/gold scam court case–Incl. “Hammer”, book permission, gold scam con’t, miscellaneous – yakuza, night & day, lights, Maki, TSK, book, love & hate for Tokyo, Yae, Japanese vs. American rant, Yae – Patches, etc., Japanese vs. American Rant, book
- Tape 19: 17th June 1991 – Marriage & divorce/Yae, TSK gangsters, growing up in East Harlem, early days in Japan, wives & lovers
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