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The Yakuza
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
R
1974
1h 52m
Action
,
Crime
,
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7.2
49%
72%
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American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
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Cast of The Yakuza
Robert Mitchum
Harry Kilmer
Ken Takakura
Tanaka Ken
Eiji Okada
Tono
Herb Edelman
Wheat
Richard Jordan
Dusty
James Shigeta
Goro
Keiko Kishi
Eiko
Christina Kokubo
Hanako
Kyōsuke Machida
Kato
Brian Keith
George Tanner
Eiji Gō
Spider
Lee Chirillo
Louise
M. Hisaka
Boyfriend
William Ross
Tanner's Guard
Akiyama
Tono's Guard
Harada
Goro's Doorman
The Yakuza Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A superior action movie, but all the same, it's for audiences that have grown accustomed over the last few years to buckets of blood, disembowelments and severed hands flying through the air.
Variety
Variety Staff
The Yakuza is a confused and diffused film which bites off more than it can artfully chew.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Though Robert Mitchum is in fine form as an aging American tough guy up against the Japanese underworld, director Sydney Pollack just doesn't have the guile necessary to dignify Schrader's adolescent enthusiasms.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The script is humorless, and Pollack, despite his willingness to make action films, doesn't seem to understand how action-film mechanisms work.
New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Its merits as an action film strongly dosed with exotic culture and subculture are offset by obvious flaws.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
George Anderson
A strange, brooding but ultimately unsuccessful film.
New York Daily News
Jerry Oster
For a gangster picture, "The Yakuza" is splendidly inert.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Pollack is a generally good director of actors but lacks the strong auteur personality essential to carrying off so highfalutin a project as this.
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Sean Axmaker
The performances are excellent and the mix of East and West interesting, but the direction fails to bring out the heart of the material.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
Mitchum and Takakura Ken forge a moving sense of mutual admiration for each other's honor codes and life-worn experience.
San Francisco Examiner
Stanley Eichelbaum
The screenplay is an incredible mess over-charged with banalities and shot through with plodding, guide-book explanations of Japanese culture and traditions.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
"The Yakuza" turns out to be what one might expect, a convoluted mess in which non-related details are continually mushed together and just as rapidly fall apart.
Miami Herald
Candice Russell
Dexterously shot action sequence grasp the speed and horror of martial arts fighting... interspersed throughout the picture, the bloody conflicts establish balance and rhythm to a taut script.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
When the violence finally comes in several episodes, it's with the ferocity of massacres trying to make up for lost time.
Philadelphia Daily News
Joe Baltake
Director Pollack successfully mixes elements of city B-movies, saddle-soap westerns and Japanese Samurai films.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
"The Yakuza" offers stylish sword-fighting sequences.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
It is grim and it is glowing and as off-beat and unpredictable as Pollack has proved himself in the past.
Baltimore Sun
R.H. Gardner
An engrossing and, at times, artful film, in which that ancient symbol of Japanese glory, the samurai sword, has never seemed more terrifying.
Charlotte Observer
Dick Banks
The pace is slow. Motivations seems ridiculous. Dialogue is abominable, although actually just about par for the course for Robert Mitchum.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
In this film, Pollack explores something far more interesting than a cultural hybrid. He explores a cinematic hybrid. "The Yakuza" turns out to be a thinking man's action picture.
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