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Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.
7.0(27)19922h 4m
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.
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Created by
- Nigel Sinclair
- Writers
- Jūzō Itami
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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

Mirei Asaoka
Akemi
Crew
Directing
- Jūzō ItamiDirector
Writing
- Jūzō ItamiWriter
Production
- Nigel SinclairExecutive Producer
- Seigo HosogoeProducer
- Yasushi TamaokiProducer
Camera
- Yonezō MaedaDirector of Photography
Editing
- Akira SuzukiEditor
Sound
- Osamu OnoderaSound Designer
- Masatoshi SaitoSound Effects Editor
- Toshiyuki HondaOriginal Music Composer
Art
- Shuichiro NakamuraProduction Design
Costume & Make-Up
- Kazu HiroSpecial Effects Makeup Artist
- Etsuko EgawaMakeup Artist
- Kazu HiroMakeup Artist