The Yakuza (1974)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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What critics compared The Yakuza to
Aside from the slinky, skin-shedding Viper and the Iron Manga-look Silver Samurai, this takes place in a world closer to Sidney Pollack’s The Yakuza , John Frankenheimer’s The Challenge or Ridley Scott’s Black Rain (all of which feature Western tough guys confused by Japanese criminal society) than any of the other Marvel movie properties.
He nearly succeeds, at least insofar as replanting the character in a plot that falls closely into the tradition of such endangered gaijin thrillers as House of Bamboo, The Yakuza and even the Bond-in-Japan You Only Live Twice.