Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181125:10:54:00
Their cue to get on set to play their former selves. >> translator: people who lived on the right side of the law don't know the rituals of the yakuza or mafia. we really lived in that world. we were professional thugs. we can use that to our advantage. >> reporter: he still wears the markings of the mafia. he left a life of crime six years ago and finds purpose in acting. >> translator: i feel like i moved from hell to heaven. >> reporter: he spent 20 years as a mobster before escaping his life of crime. but acting doesn't pay the bills, so he keeps up his day job. baba runs his own software ...