Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Overview
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 9.419 |
Directed By
Jūzō Itami
Crew
Jūzō Itami
Jūzō Itami
Kazu Hiro
Seigo Hosogoe
Yasushi Tamaoki
Nigel Sinclair
Toshiyuki Honda
Yonezō Maeda
Akira Suzuki
Shuichiro Nakamura
Etsuko Egawa
Kazu Hiro
Osamu Onodera
Masatoshi Saito
TOP CAST
Nobuko Miyamoto
Mahiru Inoue
Yasuo Daichi
Suzuki
Akira Takarada
Kobayashi
Takehiro Murata
Taro Wakasugi
Yuji Miyake
Hotel Man
Shirō Itō
Iriejima
Akira Nakao
Ibaki
Hōsei Komatsu
Hanaoka
Toshiro Yanagiba
Yakuza
Akio Tanaka
Yakuza Boss
Kōji Sekiyama
Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu
Yakuza
Tetsu Watanabe
Akechi
Shigeru Yazaki
Judge
Masahiko Tsugawa
Foreign Office Eugene
Hideji Ōtaki
Hotel General Manager
Noboru Mitani
Gang Boss
Minako Ogawa
President's secretary
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