Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers
29,188
edits
The Yakuza: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (defaultsort, added category) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 2:
[[File:Yakuza_208.jpg|frame|Top to bottom: Eiko, Kilmer, Ken]]
''[[The Yakuza]]'' is a 1974 film directed by [[Sydney Pollack]]. (Retired) detective Harry Kilmer ([[Robert Mitchum]]) goes to Japan to help out an old friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith), who had been dealing with the [[Yakuza]]. The [[Yakuza]] had kidnapped his daughter and her boyfriend to [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|coerce Tanner into a business deal]].
Harry and Tanner's friendship goes back to [[World War II]], when they served together as Marines in Japan. While in Japan, Harry had fallen in love with a local woman, Eiko, and helped save her sick daughter. Eiko's brother Ken was disgraced by his sister's relationship with a former enemy soldier and he disappeared into the yakuza underworld. However, since Ken owes a lifelong debt (called ''[[Pillars of Moral Character|giri]]'' in the movie) to Harry, he reluctantly joins them to help rescue Tanner's daughter.
Line 10:
The film emphasizes Japanese tradition and honor among the yakuza, and remarkably has two [[Yubitsume]] scenes.
The film was written by [[Paul Schrader]] and his brother Leonard. Paul would notably go on to write ''[[Taxi Driver]]''. Rewrites were also undertaken by Robert Towne, who wrote ''[[Chinatown]]''.
{{tropelist}}
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: Tanner's daughter is kidnapped by the yakuza as leverage for a deal
| |||