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The Yakuza
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
1974 · Directed by Sydney Pollack · 112 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller · 36 frames
Tagline
A man never forgets. A man pays his debts.
Crew
- Screenplay: Paul Schrader, Robert Towne
- Cinematography: Kōzō Okazaki, Duke Callaghan
- Edited by: Thomas Stanford, Don Guidice, Fredric Steinkamp
- Music: Dave Grusin
- Production design: Stephen B. Grimes
- Produced by: Sydney Pollack
Cast
- Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer
- Ken Takakura as Tanaka Ken
- Eiji Okada as Tono
- Herb Edelman as Wheat
- Richard Jordan as Dusty
- James Shigeta as Goro
- Keiko Kishi as Eiko
- Christina Kokubo as Hanako
- Kyōsuke Machida as Kato
- Brian Keith as George Tanner
Production
- Country: United States of America, Japan
- Language: English, Japanese
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Toei Company
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Box office: $1,500,000
- Themes: japan, kidnapping, yakuza, mafia
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