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The Yakuza Way

50 %|Feb 19, 1999|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.

Featured Crew

Toshimichi Ohkawa
Director
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Writer
Richard Byard
Editor
Chris Gilmore
Casting
Illya Friedman
Assistant Camera
Georges Moes
Production Design
Akiko Sasaki
Co-Producer
Dale Myrand
Cinematography