Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
“The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.”
1992•2h 4m•7.0•Released
ComedyCrime
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.
Director
Jūzō Itami
Writer
Jūzō Itami
Languages
Japanese
Studio
TOHO
Cast
Nobuko Miyamoto
Mahiru Inoue
Yasuo Daichi
Suzuki
Akira Takarada
Kobayashi
Takehiro Murata
Taro Wakasugi
Yuji Miyake
Hotel Man
Shirō Itō
Iriejima
Akira Nakao
Ibaki
Hōsei Komatsu
Hanaoka
Toshiro Yanagiba
Yakuza
Akio Tanaka
Yakuza Boss
Kōji Sekiyama
Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu
Yakuza
Tetsu Watanabe
Akechi
Shigeru Yazaki
Judge
Masahiko Tsugawa
Foreign Office Eugene
Production
Company
TOHO
Producer
Seigo Hosogoe
Producer
Yasushi Tamaoki
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