The Yakuza Way
1999•1h 22m•7.5•Released
ActionCrime
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.
Director
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Writer
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Languages
Japanese, English
Studio
Simon Tse Productions, Inc.
Cast
Riki Takeuchi
Kanuma
Eugene Nomura
Eiji
George Cheung
Mike Sakata
Mario Opinato
Nicole
Maya Hoshino
Rika
Neil Delama
Carlos
Michael Lee Baron
Pete
Eiko Nijo
Yoko
J. Anthony McCarthy
Junkyard Jake
Gene Gilmore
Frank
Frederic Tucker
Virgil
Tom Poster
Stan
Warren A. Stevens
Glen
Yasuke Todo
Okita
Melissa Doranne
Stacey
Production
Company
Simon Tse Productions, Inc.
Producer
Bradley Wong
Producer
Simon Tse
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