The Yakuza Way (1999)
82 min
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.
- Release date
- February 19, 1999
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Riki Takeuchi as Kanuma
- Eugene Nomura as Eiji
- Maya Hoshino as Rika
- Mario Opinato as Nicole
- Gene Gilmore as Frank
- Neil Delama as Carlos
- Frederick Tucker as Virgil
- Michael Lee Baron as Pete
- Tom Poster as Stan
- Warren A. Stevens as Glen
Crew
- Shundo Ohkawa · Director
- Shundo Ohkawa · Writer
- Bradley Hong · Producer
- Simon Tse · Producer
- William Richter · Composer
- Dale Myrand · Cinematographer
- Richard Byard · Editor
- Chris Gilmore · Casting director
- Georges Moes · Production designer