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The Yakuza (1975)
The Yakuza (1975) was one of the first times that the Hollywood Tough guy/Private Eye genre film met the Japanese Yakuza genre film.An old World War II buddy (Brian Keith) asks Robert Mitchum's character Harry Kilmer to travel back to Japan and rescue his daughter from kidnappers. The Kidnappers are Yakuza and things are more complicated than they appear on the surface. Starring Takakura Ken (who was a massive star in Japan), Robert Mitchum, Brian Keith and a young Richard Jordan. It was written by Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and directed by Sidney Pollack (''Three Days of the Condor , Jeremiah Johnson). Warner Brothers expected a hit but instead the movie was a bomb at the box office. Over the years though it achieved cult film status and became a staple at film schools and film festivals. Especially in Europe. In the years before his death in 2008 Sidney Pollack was invited to speak at different universities in Europe and the United States about his vast body of work. He stated that one of the movies most often asked about was The Yakuza. It's interesting to note that the movie was filmed almost entirely on location in Japan with a mostly Japanese crew and ,by all accounts, the production was trouble free. Unlike Black Rain fifteen years later which almost didn't get finished due to politics and labor issues. It's unclear if Japan had changed or if the two production companies approached things in a different way.
The following guns can be seen in The Yakuza (1975):
Smith & Wesson Model 10
Used by Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) and his sidekick Dusty (Richard Jordan).
M1911A1
Used by Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) and various Yakuza gangsters.
12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
Used by Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum). The manufacturer is unknown. It is a hammerless model with what appears to be either a twenty - eight or thirty inch barrels.
