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The Yakuza Way

(1999)

February 19, 1999 1h 22m
75%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Toshimichi Ohkawa

Director

Top Billed Cast

RT

Riki Takeuchi

Kanuma

EN

Eugene Nomura

Eiji

GC

George Cheung

Mike Sakata

MO

Mario Opinato

Nicole

MH

Maya Hoshino

Rika

ND

Neil Delama

Carlos

MLB

Michael Lee Baron

Pete

EN

Eiko Nijo

Yoko

JAM

J. Anthony McCarthy

Junkyard Jake

GG

Gene Gilmore

Frank