Some funeral parlor owners chose the Omega Suprema as the preferred car for hearse-based modifications.

In a few cases, parlor owners - some not the most reputable characters to begin with - fed fake cards into machines themselves to inflate their revenues.

But the parlor owners make higher profits from more casual customers who want to be pampered as much as they want to play the game.

Some 70 percent of parlor owners are of Korean ancestry.

Both books star a German-Austrian female funeral parlor owner with a fondness for tango.

Later Robbins sold the UNO rights to a funeral parlor owner and UNO fan from Joliet, Illinois, for $50,000, plus royalties of 10 cents per game.

Industry Figures High How much money pours into these gadgets is unknown because parlor owners are legendary tax evaders.

"Sooner or later, this was going to happen," said Naoyuki Takaishi, a parlor owner and author of many articles advocating more openness in the industry.

The movie focuses on the feud between a funeral parlor owner and a man who wants to set up a large drive-in theatre across the street from the parlor.

In recent years, parlor owners had grown bolder, propping up discreet signs, but the drill for getting inside a parlor could still seem as sinister as a drug deal.