The Yakuza (1974)
Note: this print runs 98 minutes against a recorded 107 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Eiji Okada, Christina Kokubo, James Shigeta
Directed by Sydney Pollack
The Yakuza (Japanese: ザ・ヤクザ, Hepburn: Za yakuza) is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith. The screenplay by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne is from a story by Schrader's brother, Leonard Schrader. The film is about a retired American detective (Mitchum) who returns to Japan after decades away in order to rescue his friend's daughter, kidnapped by the eponymous crime syndicate.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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