Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (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.
Director: Jūzō Itami
 |
Nobuko Miyamoto as Mahiru Inoue |
 |
Yasuo Daichi as Suzuki |
 |
Akira Takarada as Kobayashi |
 |
Takehiro Murata as Taro Wakasugi |
 |
Yuji Miyake as Hotel Man |
 |
Shirō Itō 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 Ōtaki as Hotel General Manager |
 |
Noboru Mitani as Gang Boss |
 |
Minako Ogawa as President's secretary |
| Directing | Jūzō Itami | Director |
| Writing | Jūzō Itami | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kazu Hiro | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Production | Seigo Hosogoe | Producer |
| Production | Yasushi Tamaoki | Producer |
| Production | Nigel Sinclair | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Toshiyuki Honda | Music |
| Camera | Yonezō Maeda | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Art | Shuichiro Nakamura | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Etsuko Egawa | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kazu Hiro | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Osamu Onodera | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Masatoshi Saito | Sound Effects Editor |
