The Yakuza Way (1999)
Action • Crime • 1ч 22м
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.
TMDB rating:
7.5
(2)
Cast
Riki Takeuchi
Kanuma
Eugene Nomura
Eiji
George Cheung
Mike Sakata
Mario Opinato
Nicole
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Maya Hoshino
Rika
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Neil Delama
Carlos
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Michael Lee Baron
Pete
Eiko Nijo
Yoko
J. Anthony McCarthy
Junkyard Jake
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Gene Gilmore
Frank
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Frederic Tucker
Virgil
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Tom Poster
Stan
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Warren A. Stevens
Glen
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Yasuke Todo
Okita
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Melissa Doranne
Stacey
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Thomas L. Stack Jr.
Terry
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Preston M. Todd
Brian
Mark De Alessandro
Errol Sack
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Brian Simpson
Crew
Chris Gilmore
Casting
Clancy T. Troutman
Sound Editor
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Director
Bradley Wong
Producer
Akiko Sasaki
Co-Producer
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Writer
Richard Byard
Editor
Georges Moes
Production Design
Illya Friedman
Assistant Camera
Dale Myrand
Cinematography
Ken Handa
Assistant Director
Simon Tse
Producer
Masaya Nakamura
Executive Producer
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