The Yakuza

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The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime film that explores the Japanese criminal underworld and themes of honor and obligation through a cross-cultural story involving an American man returning to Japan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
basedOn original screenplay
cinematographyBy Kōzō Okazaki NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Sydney Pollack NERFINISHED
distributedBy Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy Douglas Stewart NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Japan NERFINISHED
Tokyo NERFINISHED
genre crime
drama
neo-noir
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yakuza
mainCharacter Harry Kilmer NERFINISHED
Ken Tanaka NERFINISHED
musicBy Dave Grusin NERFINISHED
notableFor depiction of yakuza code of honor
early Hollywood portrayal of Japanese organized crime
originalLanguage English
Japanese
plotFocus Japanese criminal underworld
producer Sydney Pollack NERFINISHED
productionCompany Warner Bros. NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1974-03-13
releaseYear 1974
runtimeMinutes 112
screenwriter Paul Schrader NERFINISHED
Robert Towne NERFINISHED
setting Japan NERFINISHED
Tokyo NERFINISHED
starring Brian Keith NERFINISHED
Eiko Kishi NERFINISHED
Herb Edelman NERFINISHED
Keiko Kishi NERFINISHED
Ken Takakura NERFINISHED
Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED
storyBy Leonard Schrader NERFINISHED
Paul Schrader NERFINISHED
theme cross-cultural relationships
honor
loyalty
obligation
redemption

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David Rayfiel notableWork The Yakuza
this entity surface form: Yakuza
Fredric Steinkamp edited The Yakuza