Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
"The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob."
Comedy
Crime
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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.
Cast
Nobuko Miyamoto
Mahiru Inoue
Yasuo Daichi
Suzuki
Akira Takarada
Kobayashi
Takehiro Murata
Taro Wakasugi
Yuji Miyake
Hotel Man
ShirÅ ItÅ
Iriejima
Akira Nakao
Ibaki
HÅsei Komatsu
Hanaoka
Toshiro Yanagiba
Yakuza
No Photo
Akio Tanaka
Yakuza Boss
KÅji Sekiyama
Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu
Yakuza
Tetsu Watanabe
Akechi
Shigeru Yazaki
Judge
Masahiko Tsugawa
Foreign Office Eugen...