The Yakuza
American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
🎭 Top Cast
🎬 Technical Specs
🏷️ Keywords
🎯 Categories
⭐ Featured Review
"Superb East-meets-West movie, I suspect largely due to Schrader's insight. Takakura Ken's performance really steals the show, though all actors are more than capable; Mitchum gives a great performance again. Not a martial arts movie, but contains a katana showdown that I can watch over and over again without finding fault [more believable than anything you'll see in 'Kill Bill']. The story is gorgeously convoluted, keeping it's secrets to the very end, in a fitting Japanese manner. Action scenes are relatively restrained, and the story tells how Mitchum's ch..."
💡 Did You Know?
Martin Scorsese wanted to direct after Mean Streets (1973), but the producers wanted Sydney Pollack. Scorsese is on record that he would very much have liked to direct the film and was disappointed that he was passed over. However, he got to direct Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) instead after being sought out by Ellen Burstyn. "Alice" ended up making more than 20 times its budget and won Burstyn an academy award, while this film became a box office bomb.
🎬 More Like This
📖 Synopsis
American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.