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The Yakuza

1975, Movie, R, 112 mins

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Interesting and well-acted, if clumsy, American take on the Japanese gangster genre. Robert Mitchum stars as a private detective who goes to Japan to rescue an American girl who has been kidnapped by a yakuza, with Japanese screen idol Ken Takakura as a former gangster who helps him in his quest. Kishi Keiko plays a woman with whom Mitchum had had a love affair while stationed in Japan at the end of WWII, and whom he now re-encounters. Written by Paul Schrader from a story ... read more leave a comment
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From Academy Award-winning director Sidney Pollack ("The Firm," "Absence of Malice") comes this suspenseful adventure about a Harry Kilmer (Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum, "Cape Fear"), an American man determined to rescue his employer's kidnapped daughter from the Japanese mafia in Kyoto. Written by Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull") and Acadamy Award-winner Robert Towne ("Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise"). "Dazzling displays of swordplay," praises Newsweek, while Rex Reed proclaims this "an exciting, riveting, totally original motion picture."
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Length: 01:53:00
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From Academy Award-winning director Sidney Pollack ("The Firm," "Absence of Malice") comes this suspenseful adventure about a Harry Kilmer (Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum, "Cape Fear"), an American man determined to rescue his employer's kidnapped daughter from the Japanese mafia in Kyoto. Written by Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull") and Acadamy Award-winner Robert Towne ("Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise"). "Dazzling displays of swordplay," praises Newsweek, while Rex Reed proclaims this "an exciting, riveting, totally original motion picture."
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Length: 01:53:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
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A suspenseful adventure about a Harry Kilmer, an American man determined to rescue his employer's kidnapped daughter from the Japanese mafia in Kyoto.
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Posted: 12/6/2007
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Year: 1975
Rated R

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Cast
Robert Mitchum: Harry Kilmer
Ken Takakura: Tanaka Ken
Brian Keith: George Tanner
Herb Edelman: Oliver Wheat
Richard Jordan: Dusty
Kishi Keiko: Tanaka Eiko

 

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