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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion 1992 Directed by Jūzō Itami ミンボーの女

The gangster comedy that shook up the Japanese mob.

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.

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Gneres Comedy , Crime
Production Company TOHO
Release Date 16 May 1992
123 mins
Cast
Nobuko Miyamoto
Nobuko Miyamoto Mahiru Inoue
Yasuo Daichi
Yasuo Daichi Suzuki
Akira Takarada
Akira Takarada Kobayashi
Takehiro Murata
Takehiro Murata Taro Wakasugi
Yuji Miyake
Yuji Miyake Hotel Man
Shirō Itō
Shirō Itō Iriejima
Akira Nakao
Akira Nakao Ibaki
Hōsei Komatsu
Hōsei Komatsu Hanaoka
Toshiro Yanagiba
Toshiro Yanagiba Yakuza
Akio Tanaka
Akio Tanaka Yakuza Boss
Kōji Sekiyama
Kōji Sekiyama Yakuza Boss
Guts Ishimatsu
Guts Ishimatsu Yakuza
Tetsu Watanabe
Tetsu Watanabe Akechi
Shigeru Yazaki
Shigeru Yazaki Judge
Masahiko Tsugawa
Masahiko Tsugawa Foreign Office Eugene
Hideji Ōtaki
Hideji Ōtaki Hotel General Manager
Noboru Mitani
Noboru Mitani Gang Boss
Minako Ogawa
Minako Ogawa President's secretary
Crew
Director
Jūzō Itami
Jūzō Itami
Writer
Jūzō Itami
Jūzō Itami
Producers
Seigo Hosogoe
Seigo Hosogoe
Yasushi Tamaoki
Yasushi Tamaoki
Executive Producer
Nigel Sinclair
Nigel Sinclair
Cinematography
Yonezō Maeda
Yonezō Maeda
Editor
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
Production Design
Shuichiro Nakamura
Shuichiro Nakamura
Sound
Masatoshi Saito
Masatoshi Saito
Osamu Onodera
Osamu Onodera
Makeup Artists
Etsuko Egawa
Etsuko Egawa
Kazu Hiro
Kazu Hiro
Music
Toshiyuki Honda
Toshiyuki Honda