Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Minbô no onna
The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.
123 min
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
- Release date
- October 19, 1994
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Toshiyuki Honda
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Nobuko Miyamoto as Mahiru Inoue
- Yasuo Daichi as Yûki Suzuki
- Akira Takarada as Kobayashi - Hotel General Manager
- Takehiro Murata as Tarô Wakasugi
- Yûji Miyake as Million Dollar Smile
- Shirô Itô as Iriuchijima
- Akira Nakao as Ibagi
- Hōsei Komatsu as Hanaoka
- Toshirō Yanagiba as Yakuza
- Akio Tanaka as Yakuza Boss
- Kōji Sekiyama as Yakuza Boss
- Guts Ishimatsu as Yakuza
- Tetsu Watanabe as Akechi
- Shigeru Yazaki as Judge
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Foreign Office Eugene
- Hideji Ōtaki as Hotel Chairman
- Noboru Mitani as Front Desk Chief
- Minako Ogawa as President's secretary
- Mirei Asaoka as Akemi
Crew
- Jūzō Itami · Director
- Jūzō Itami · Writer
- Seigo Hosogoe · Producer
- Yasushi Tamaoki · Producer
- Toshiyuki Honda · Composer
- Yonezô Maeda · Cinematographer
- Akira Suzuki · Editor
- Shûshi Nakamura · Production designer