The Yakuza Way
movie

Released February 19, 1999
Overview
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
as
Kanuma

Eugene Nomura
as
Eiji

George Cheung
as
Mike Sakata

Mario Opinato
as
Nicole
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Maya Hoshino
as
Rika
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Neil Delama
as
Carlos
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Michael Lee Baron
as
Pete

Eiko Nijo
as
Yoko

J. Anthony McCarthy
as
Junkyard Jake
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Gene Gilmore
as
Frank
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Frederic Tucker
as
Virgil
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Tom Poster
as
Stan
Crew

Toshimichi Ohkawa
as
Director

Toshimichi Ohkawa
as
Writer
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Richard Byard
as
Editor
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Chris Gilmore
as
Casting
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Georges Moes
as
Production Design
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Ken Handa
as
Assistant Director
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Clancy T. Troutman
as
Sound Editor
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Illya Friedman
as
Assistant Camera
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Dale Myrand
as
Cinematography
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Bradley Wong
as
Producer
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Akiko Sasaki
as
Co-Producer
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Masaya Nakamura
as
Executive Producer