Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)

Name: Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1992-05-16
Duration: 124 min
Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto, Yasuo Daichi, Akira Takarada, Takehiro Murata, Yuji Miyake

The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.

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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Released 1992-05-16 · 124 min · Comedy, Crime

Directed by Jūzō Itami

Cast

Nobuko Miyamoto as Mahiru Inoue
Yasuo Daichi as Suzuki
Akira Takarada as Kobayashi
Takehiro Murata as Taro Wakasugi
Yuji Miyake as Hotel Man
Shirō Itō as Iriejima
Akira Nakao as Ibaki
Hōsei Komatsu as Hanaoka
Toshiro Yanagiba as Yakuza
Akio Tanaka as Yakuza Boss
Kōji Sekiyama as Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu as Yakuza
Tetsu Watanabe as Akechi
Shigeru Yazaki as Judge
Masahiko Tsugawa as Foreign Office Eugene