Minbo
Sign in to saveis a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, '''''The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman'''''. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally. It satirizes the yakuza, who retaliated for their portrayal in the film by attacking the director.
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7.0An 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.
Released: 1992-05-16124 minDir: Jūzō ItamiComedy, Crime
Cast
- 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
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Key dates
- Published
- 19 October 1994
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Screenwriter
- Jūzō Itami
- Cast member
- Hideji Ōtaki
- Composer
- Toshiyuki Honda
- Duration
- +123
- FilmAffinity ID
- 814493
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is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, '''''The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman'''''. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally. It satirizes the yakuza, who retaliated for their portrayal in the film by attacking the director.
==Plot summary== The owner of a high-class Japanese hotel, the Europa, hopes to win a prestigious and lucrative contract for the hotel as the site of a summit meeting between important international officials. Unfortunately, the yakuza have taken a liking to this hotel as both a hangout and a target for extortion. In order to win the contract, the owner realizes, he must rid the hotel of the yakuza. Fearing to confront them himself, he deputizes a hotel accountant, Suzuki (Yasuo Daichi) and a bellboy and former college sumo-club member, Wakasugi (Takehiro Murata). The hapless pair are no more daring than their employer, however, and their tentative attempts to address the problem fail until they meet Mahiru Inoue (Nobuko Miyamoto), a lawyer who specializes in dealing with the yakuza. With Inoue's direction, the hotel staff comes together to face down the yakuza ruffians, who are portrayed as craven, outwardly-threatening-but-inwardly-weak, fools.