Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.

5/16/19922h 4min6.9/10(25 TMDB votes)

ComedyCrime

Directed by Jūzō Itami

Plot

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.

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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