Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

123 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Thriller | May 16, 1992

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.

Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

123 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Thriller | May 16, 1992

Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title ミンボーの女
Directors Juzo Itami
Writers Juzo Itami

Cast

Nobuko Miyamoto

as Mahiru Inoue

Yasuo Daichi

as Suzuki

Akira Takarada

as Kobayashi

Takehiro Murata

as Taro Wakasugi

Yuji Miyake

as Hotel Man

Shirô Itô

as Iriejima

Akira Nakao

as Ibaki

Hōsei Komatsu

as Hanaoka

Toshiro Yanagiba

as Yakuza

Akio Tanaka

as Yakuza Boss

Kōji Sekiyama

as Yakuza Boss

Guts Ishimatsu

as Yakuza

Tetsu Watanabe

as Akechi

Shigeru Yazaki

as Judge

Masahiko Tsugawa

as Foreign Office Eugene

Hideji Ôtaki

as Hotel General Manager

Gregory Marshall Smith

as International Delegate