The Yakuza
“A man never forgets. A man pays his debts.”
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Yakuza performed
Budget
$5.0M
Worldwide Gross
$1.5M
Gross Profit
−$3.5M
Return
0.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$252K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Harry Kilmer
Robert Mitchum
Harry Kilmer
Tanaka Ken
Ken Takakura
Tanaka Ken
Tono
Eiji Okada
Tono
Wheat
Herb Edelman
Wheat
Dusty
Richard Jordan
Dusty
Goro
James Shigeta
Goro
Eiko
Keiko Kishi
Eiko
Hanako
Christina Kokubo
Hanako
Kato
Kyōsuke Machida
Kato
George Tanner
Brian Keith
George Tanner
Spider
Eiji Gō
Spider
Louise
Lee Chirillo
Louise
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