Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

Name: Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1992
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 6.981

1992 · 124 min

Comedy · Crime

★ 7.0

Criterion

Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Jūzō Itami
Writer Jūzō Itami
Director of Photography Yonezō Maeda

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
A
Akio Tanaka
Yakuza Boss
Kōji Sekiyama
Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu
Yakuza

Crew

Director — Jūzō Itami
Writer — Jūzō Itami
Director of Photography — Yonezō Maeda

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Intermission

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