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The Yakuza Way
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The Yakuza Way

1999-02-19 · 82 min · ★ 7.5

Action · Crime

After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he learns that his long-lost younger sister is in Los Angeles, and he teams up with an unlikely partner in his quest for justice: a petty thief who's trying to help a young woman get back to Japan.

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Directors
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Production companies
Simon Tse Productions, Inc.
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Riki TakeuchiRiki TakeuchiKanuma
Eugene NomuraEugene NomuraEiji
George CheungGeorge CheungMike Sakata
Mario OpinatoMario OpinatoNicole
Maya HoshinoRika
Neil DelamaCarlos
Michael Lee BaronPete
Eiko NijoEiko NijoYoko
J. Anthony McCarthyJ. Anthony McCarthyJunkyard Jake
Gene GilmoreFrank
Frederic TuckerVirgil
Tom PosterStan
Warren A. StevensGlen
Yasuke TodoOkita
Melissa DoranneStacey
Thomas L. Stack Jr.Terry
Preston M. ToddBrian
Mark De AlessandroMark De Alessandro
Errol SackErrol Sack
Brian Simpson

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