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The Yakuza

film by Pollack [1974]
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  • Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack
    / Film directing

    …from that romantic blockbuster with The Yakuza (1974), a post-noir thriller about Japanese gangsters written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne; Robert Mitchum played a private eye who travels to Japan to rescue an American girl kidnapped by yakuza. Pollack had greater commercial success with Three Days of the Condor…

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    …from that romantic blockbuster with The Yakuza (1974), a post-noir thriller about Japanese gangsters written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne; Robert Mitchum played a private eye who travels to Japan to rescue an American girl kidnapped by yakuza. Pollack had greater commercial success with Three Days of the Condor…

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