yakuza 123The Yakuza (Japanese: ザ・ヤクザ, Hepburn: Za yakuza) is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken TakakuraThe Yakuza. Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza. 326. IMDb