--- title: 'The Yakuza (1974)' type: 'film' director: 'Sydney Pollack' released: '1974-12-21' runtime_minutes: 107 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-yakuza-1974' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073918/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Yakuza (1974) 1974 · R · 107 min · Drama, Action, Crime · United States ## Synopsis The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith. The screenplay by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne is from a story by Schrader's brother, Leonard Schrader. The film is about a retired American detective (Mitchum) who returns to Japan after decades away in order to rescue his friend's daughter, kidnapped by the eponymous crime syndicate. ## Credits - **Director:** [Sydney Pollack](https://cinepixo.com/people/sydney-pollack) - **Producer:** [Sydney Pollack](https://cinepixo.com/people/sydney-pollack) - **Screenplay:** [Paul Schrader](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-schrader), [Robert Towne](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-towne) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dave Grusin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dave-grusin) - **Director of Photography:** [Kōzō Okazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/kozo-okazaki) - **Editor:** [Don Guidice](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-guidice) ## Cast - [Ken Takakura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-takakura) - [Brian Keith](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-keith) - [Eiji Okada](https://cinepixo.com/people/eiji-okada) - [James Shigeta](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-shigeta) - [Richard Jordan](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-jordan) - [Robert Mitchum](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mitchum) - [William Ross](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-ross) - [Herb Edelman](https://cinepixo.com/people/herb-edelman) - [Christina Kokubo](https://cinepixo.com/people/christina-kokubo) - [Keiko Kishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/keiko-kishi) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-yakuza-1974 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2044064); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.