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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Paul Schrader (screenplay) and
Robert Towne (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
March 1975 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A man never forgets. A man pays his debts. more
Plot:
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter... more | full synopsis
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The best East-meets-West movie you can see more (32 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert Mitchum ... Harry Kilmer
Ken Takakura ... Tanaka Ken (as Takakura Ken)
Brian Keith ... George Tanner
Herb Edelman ... Wheat
Richard Jordan ... Dusty
Keiko Kishi ... Eiko (as Kishi Keiko)
Eiji Okada ... Tono (as Okada Eiji)
James Shigeta ... Goro
Kyosuke Mashida ... Kato
Christina Kokubo ... Hanako
Eiji Go ... Spider (as Go Eiji)
Lee Chirillo ... Louise
M. Hisaka ... Boyfriend
William Ross ... Tanner's Guard
Akiyama ... Tono's Guard
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Brotherhood of the Yakuza (UK) (video title)
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Runtime:
Japan:123 min | UK:107 min | USA:112 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The gambling game played by the Yakuza in the film is Tehonbiki. more
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Boom mic visible: The boom mic is clearly visible in one scene when Oliver Wheat grabs his cat while telling the story of Eiko to Dusty, the mic appears behind the table and is retracted as Wheat advances. more
Quotes:
Harry Kilmer: Everywhere I look, I can't recognize a thing.
Oliver Wheat: It's still there. Farmers in the countryside may watch TV from their tatami mats and you can't see Fuji through the smog, but don't let it fool you. It's still Japan and the Japanese are still Japanese.
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Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) more
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Only the Wind more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
The best East-meets-West movie you can see, 10 July 2004
Author: yakuza61 (wyakuza@aol.com) from England

Superb East-meets-West movie, I suspect largely due to Schrader's insight. Takakura Ken's performance really steals the show, though all actors are more than capable; Mitchum gives a great performance again. Not a martial arts movie, but contains a katana showdown that I can watch over and over again without finding fault [more believable than anything you'll see in 'Kill Bill'].

The story is gorgeously convoluted, keeping it's secrets to the very end, in a fitting Japanese manner. Action scenes are relatively restrained, and the story tells how Mitchum's character finally comes to understand Takakura Ken's character, and his apparently icy antagonism. When can we see a DVD copy?!

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