The Yakuza R
An American man is determined to rescue his employer's kidnapped daughter from the Japanese mafia in Kyoto.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.35:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 25, 2014
- Originally Released: 194
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert Mitchum | |
| Performer: | Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi, Eiji Okada & James Shigeta | |
| Directed by | Sydney Pollack | |
| Edited by | Thomas Stanford & Don Guidice | |
| Screenplay by | Paul Schrader & Robert Towne | |
| Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
| Produced by | Sydney Pollack | |
| Director of Photography: | Kôzô Okazaki |
Entertainment Reviews:
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72%
Unsettling, but ultimately unsatisfying.
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Chicago Reader
... Sydney Pollack ... manifests as much mythic sense as a mill foreman.
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Parallax View
A confused and diffused film which bites off more than it can artfully chew.
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Variety
Rating: 9/10 --
The Yakuza is old-school in its delivery, the pacing is slow, but stay with it and you will be rewarded with a payoff that is both startling and touching.
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Starburst
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...Mitchum, armed with a shotgun and a pistol, is particularly bad-*** here...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Interesting and well-acted, if clumsy, American take on the Japanese gangster genre.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
has one leg is still straddling the Think Fast Mr. Moto era.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
A Yakuza boss has kidnapped the daughter of shipping executive George Tanner (Brian Keith), believing that he has cheated him in a gun deal. Tanner enlists the aid of his old army buddy, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum), to go to Japan and rescue his child. However, things are not exactly what they seem, as Harry discovers when he attempts to infiltrate the notorious unfamiliar world of the Japanese mafia.
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- Sales Rank: 16,634
- UPC: 888574099367
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