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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : March, 1975 DVD Release : 23 January, 2007 |
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The Yakuza description Complex to the point of being pleasingly convoluted, this Sydney Pollack film (from a terrific script by Robert Towne and Leonard and Paul Schrader) is an intriguing blend of Western and Asian sensibilities. Mitchum, in one of his best roles of the 1970s, is drawn to the Orient by an army buddy (Brian Keith), whose daughter has been kidnapped. But when he gets to Japan, Mitchum finds that her kidnappers are the shadowy Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia--an organization that is as vicious as it is tradition-bound. He must call on friends he made after World War II for favors and finds himself unintentionally trampling on issues of honor, even as he battles for his life and that of the girl he is seeking. Surprisingly heartfelt and deliciously exciting, the film features a sorrowful performance by Mitchum and a stoically touching one by Ken Takakura. And what great samurai swordplay! --Marshall Fine |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Neglected Classic |
| Robert Mitchum had a mini comeback in the 70s with this film and also as Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely. While he was a great-- if old-- Marlowe, this is the better film.
Sidney Pollock does his best Howard Hawks impression with this story of world weary macho men, the eager young gun, and a code of honor that must be satisfied-- on both sides. The Yakuza has it all, action, romance, exotic locales and customs, and suspense. The climax is one of the best martial arts sequences in movie history, because while fantastic and very bloody, it keeps its feet on the ground just enough to stay believable. |
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