The Yakuza (1974)
- Directed by
- Sydney Pollack
- Genre
- drama film, action film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 213 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A retired American detective travels to Japan to rescue his friend's daughter from a crime syndicate. He is pulled back into a world of violence and honor he thought he had left behind.
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What happens
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. The film was a co-production between Warner Bros. and Japan's Toei Company, and was filmed principally on-location in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. It premiered in Japan on December 28, 1974, before going into general release in the United States on March 19, 1975. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial disappointment, though in the ensuing decades it has been praised by filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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