The Yakuza Way

The Yakuza Way (1999) is a action, crime film directed by Toshimichi Ohkawa rated 7.5/10.

After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he learns that his long-lost younger sister is in Los Angeles, and he teams up with an unlikely partner in his quest for justice: a petty thief who's trying to help a young woman get back to Japan.

Cast

Riki Takeuchi

Kanuma

Eugene Nomura

Eiji

George Cheung

Mike Sakata

Mario Opinato

Nicole

Maya Hoshino

Rika

Neil Delama

Carlos

Michael Lee Baron

Pete

Eiko Nijo

Yoko

J. Anthony McCarthy

Junkyard Jake

Gene Gilmore

Frank

Frederic Tucker

Virgil

Tom Poster

Stan