The Yakuza Way
82 mins
After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he learns that his long-lost younger sister is in Los Angeles, and he teams up with an unlikely partner in his quest for justice: a petty thief who's trying to help a young woman get back to Japan.
Maya Hoshino
Rika
Neil Delama
Carlos
Gene Gilmore
Frank
Frederic Tucker
Virgil
Tom Poster
Stan
Yasuke Todo
Okita
Melissa Doranne
Stacey
Thomas L. Stack Jr.
Terry
Preston M. Todd
Brian
Chris Gilmore
Casting
Clancy T. Troutman
Sound Editor
Bradley Wong
Producer
Akiko Sasaki
Co-Producer
Richard Byard
Editor
Georges Moes
Production Design
Illya Friedman
Assistant Camera
Dale Myrand
Cinematography
Ken Handa
Assistant Director
Simon Tse
Producer
Masaya Nakamura
Executive Producer