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Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan—and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. He knows there's a right way to approach the brutal underworld. And he knows there's one thing powerful mobsters respect: greater power.
Robert Mitchum is Kilmer in this haunting East-meets-West-head-on thriller powered by a team of heavy Hollywood hitters: writers Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and Robert Towne (Chinatown) and director Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter).
Co-starring Japan's Takakura Ken and veteran character actor Brian Keith, The Yakuza is a modern film noir in which honor and loyalty become issues of life and death. Violence erupts with the speed of a Tokyo-bound bullet train. And the last thing to die is tradition.
Original Release
12/21/1974
US Release
03/19/1975
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Mitchum | Harry Kilmer |
Ken Takakura | Tanaka Ken |
Brian Keith | George Tanner |
Herb Edelman | Wheat |
Richard Jordan | Dusty |
Keiko Kishi | Eiko |
Eiji Okada | Tono |
James Shigeta | Goro |
Kyôsuke Machida | Kato |
Christina Kokubo | Hanako |
Directors
Writers
Paul Schrader, Robert Towne, Leonard Schrader
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Mitchum | Harry Kilmer |
Ken Takakura | Tanaka Ken |
Brian Keith | George Tanner |
Herb Edelman | Wheat |
Richard Jordan | Dusty |
Keiko Kishi | Eiko |
Eiji Okada | Tono |
James Shigeta | Goro |
Kyôsuke Machida | Kato |
Christina Kokubo | Hanako |
Eiji Gô | Spider |
Lee Chirillo | Louise |
M. Hisaka | Boyfriend |
William Ross | Tanner's Guard |
Akiyama | Tono's Guard |
Harada | Goro's Doorman |
Louis Chirillo | Louise |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sydney Pollack | Producer |
Michael Hamilburg | Producer |