The Yakuza Wives

Yakuza Wives For M Magazine, 2004 Life After The Mob. The men who leave Japan's violent Yakuza gang put their lives in constant danger and turn their backs on huge riches. But for some, the risks and hardship are worth it to hold onto their marriages.

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza cap, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuza, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on. Based on a weekly magazine expose written by Japanese journalist Shoko Ieda, who spent nearly a year interviewing many real life Yakuza wives.Edit Translation

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• Native Title:極道の妻たち
• Also Known As:Wives of the Yakuza , Gokudo no onna-tachi , The Yakuza Wives
• Directors:Gosha Hideo
• Genres:Crime, Drama, Mature

• Country: Japan
• Type: Movie
• Release Date: Nov 15, 1986
• Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.
• Score: 3.8 (scored by 2 users)
• Ranked: #35420
• Popularity: #99999
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

• Katase RinoMain Role
• Iwashita ShimaMain Role
• Morohoshi KazumiUnknown

• Movie:Yakuza Ladies
• Country: Japan
• Release Date: Nov 15, 1986
• Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

• Score: 3.8 (scored by 2 users)
• Ranked: #35420
• Popularity: #99999
• Watchers: 12

Contents.Plot Retired detective Harry Kilmer is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner. Tanner has been doing business with a gangster, Tono , who has kidnapped Tanner's daughter to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale of guns.

Tanner hopes that Kilmer can rescue the girl using his Japanese connections.Kilmer and Tanner had been Marine MPs in during the. Kilmer became aware of a woman, Eiko , who was involved in the black market so that she could procure penicillin for her sick daughter. Kilmer intervened on behalf of Eiko during a skirmish, saving her life. After they'd been living together, with Kilmer repeatedly asking Eiko to marry him, her brother Ken returned from an island where he'd been stranded as an Imperial Japanese soldier. Both outraged that she was living with his former enemy and deeply indebted to Kilmer for saving the lives of his (apparently) only remaining family, Ken disappeared into the yakuza criminal underground and refused to see or speak to his sister.

Eiko, cautious to do nothing to offend Ken further, broke off contact with Kilmer. Before returning to the US, Kilmer bought Eiko a bar (with money borrowed from George Tanner) which she operates to this day, named Kilmer House in his honor. Kilmer has never stopped loving her.Ken's debt to Kilmer, is a lifelong obligation that traditionally can never be repaid. Tanner believes that Ken would therefore do anything for Kilmer, including rescuing Tanner's daughter. Traveling to Tokyo with Tanner's bodyguard Dusty , they stay at the home of another old military buddy named Oliver Wheat. Kilmer visits Eiko at the bar's closing time, seeking to find Ken.

Eiko's feelings for Kilmer are clearly as strong as ever. He also becomes reacquainted with Eiko's daughter, Hanako, who is delighted to see Kilmer again. Eiko tells Kilmer that her brother can be found at his school in.Kilmer travels by train to visit Ken at his kendo school. Ken is no longer a yakuza member, but will still help Kilmer. They find and free the girl. In so doing, Ken 'takes up the sword' once again, attacking one of Tono's men to save Kilmer.

This is an inexcusable intrusion by Ken in yakuza affairs. Contracts on both Ken's and Kilmer's lives are issued. Despite Tanner's protests, Kilmer insists on staying until the danger to Ken can be resolved. Eiko suggests he see Ken's brother, a high-level legal counselor to the yakuza chiefs. Goro is unable to intercede due to his impartial role in yakuza society, but suggests Ken can remove the death threat by killing Tono with a sword. The only alternative is for Kilmer to kill Tono himself, by any means (as an outsider, he is not bound to use a sword). Because Kilmer is known to Goro as an unusual who understands and accepts Japanese values, he proposes that Kilmer now has an obligation to Ken.After an attempt on Kilmer's life at a bathhouse, he learns that his old friend Tanner has taken out the contract on him.

Tanner secretly is broke and owes Tono a huge debt. Dusty discloses that Tanner and Tono are business partners. During a violent attack on Ken and Kilmer in Oliver Wheat's house, Dusty is stabbed to death with a sword and Hanako is shot and killed.Seeking advice again from Ken's brother, Goro advises them that they have no choice but to assassinate Tanner and Tono. This will embarrass the partners in the eyes of the yakuza. Goro discloses that he has a 'wayward son' who has joined Tono's clan and asks that Ken protect him should he be caught in the battle. In private, Goro then discloses the shocking family secret to Kilmer that Eiko is not Ken's sister but his wife, and Hanako their only child. Kilmer comprehends the true meaning of Eiko and Ken's rift, and Ken's anguish at the death of Hanako, all brought about by his repeated intercessions in their lives.Kilmer storms into Tanner's apartment and kills him, then joins Ken for a near-suicidal attack on Tono's residence.

During a prolonged battle, after Ken kills Tono in the traditional way with a, Goro's son attacks them and Ken kills him in self-defense. Bearing the news to his brother, Ken moves to commit, but his brother pleads with him not to bring more anguish to their family.

Instead, Ken performs (the ceremonial yakuza apology by cutting off one's little finger). After Ken excuses himself, Goro compliments Kilmer on his adherence to Japanese traditions, and dedication to his family.Before leaving Japan, Kilmer visits with Ken at home and asks to speak to him formally. While Ken prepares tea, Kilmer quietly commits yubitsume, and when Ken enters the room, waits for him to be seated. Sliding the folded handkerchief that contains his finger to Ken, he says 'please accept this token of my apology' for 'bringing great pain into your life, both in the past and in the present.'

Ken accepts, and Kilmer asks that 'if you can forgive me, then you can forgive Eiko,' adding, 'you are greatly loved and respected by all your family.' Ken professes that 'no man has a greater friend than Kilmer-san,' and Kilmer, overcome by emotion, says the same of Ken. Their obligations now apparently resolved, Ken takes Kilmer to the airport, and both men bow formally to each other before parting.Cast. as Harry Kilmer.

as Ken Tanaka (: 田中健, Tanaka Ken). as George Tanner. as Oliver Wheat. as Dusty. as Eiko Tanaka (: 田中英子, Tanaka Eiko). as Toshiro Tono (: 遠野敏郎, Tōno Toshirō). as Goro Tanaka (: 田中五郎, Tanaka Gorō).

as Jiro Kato (: 加藤次郎, Katō Jirō). as Hanako Tanaka (: 田中花子, Tanaka Hanako). as Spider/Shiro Tanaka (: 田中史朗, Tanaka Shirō), Goro's Son. Lee Chirillo as Louise. M.

Hisaka as Boyfriend. as Tanner's guard. Akiyama as Tono's guard. Harada as Goro's doormanProduction Original script says the idea for the film came from a letter sent to him by his brother, who was then living in Japan; Leonard had left the U.S. When he received his military draft induction card and found work teaching English at a Japanese university, but frequently found himself with nothing to do when radical students shut down the campus and ended up spending a lot of time in yakuza-run bars. He had also been watching yakuza films and been impressed by the presence of and the rituals involved. He thought there was an interesting film to be made about a Westerner who became involved in the yakuza to such an extent he would 'make that ultimate sacrifice that is so foreign to a Westerner.

That is the premise we started out on, trying to create a plot that would result in that situation.' Schrader told the idea to co-producer Mark Hamilburg, who liked it and paid for the brothers to write it.

They spent two months watching films, in particular films at a cinema in Los Angeles. 'By the time I started writing, I was thinking like a Toei screenwriter,' says Schrader. They wrote the script in an apartment in Venice over a month, between thanksgiving and Christmas. Schrader says Hamilburg saw the script 'was going to be a hot item: the intensity with which people became interested was clear. He knew he was incapable of handling a high-level auction, so he went to Robin French' to handle the auction.

French sold the script for $300,000.Schrader later reflected:It's hard to see now, looking back at a film which completely flopped, but it was a very commercial idea. It had a lot of commercial hooks plus a strong love story, rich characters, and an 'in' theme. It seemed to have all the elements for a rich, commercial action romance.

Robert Aldrich Originally, was to direct. Aldrich later called it 'one of the few pictures I really wanted to make' although he wanted changes made.

'It was a terrible script, I thought, but a sensational idea. I said, 'If I'm going to make this picture, I'm going to turn this script upside down.' I saw it one particular way, and Paul didn't see it that way.' Aldrich thought his view might have prevailed if had been cast in the lead, but Marvin disagreed with Warner Brothers over the size of the actor's fee.

Instead they cast. Aldrich and Mitchum had worked together on (1959), and the director said 'I really considered him my friend, and I admired him. I think he's a brilliant actor - a strange, convoluted guy. I knew I wasn't his favorite director, but I never really knew he disliked me.' The two of them met, and Mitchum told Warners afterwards he did not want to do the film with Aldrich. 'Too bad,' Aldrich said later.

'I think it was possible to make a marvelous movie out of Yakuza.' Sydney Pollack then became attached. Schrader says that Pollack wanted rewrites, notably a 'softening' of the Harry character. Schrader says 'I was fired, because I was unable to write what Sydney wanted. Sydney and I did not get along well, and he needed someone of his own age, whose work he respected, for feedback.' Robert Towne came on to rewrite the film.was also interested but then decided he was not old enough. Filming Pollack remarked in interviews on complications of filming in Japan, using Japanese crews and technicians, and adopting techniques and practices of Japanese filmmaking.

Beyond language barriers, there were creative approaches that he synthesized into the film for being appropriate for the subject matter. Soundtrack The Yakuzaby. ReleasedJuly 2005Length1: 10: 22Lukas KendallProfessional ratings Review scoresSourceRatingThe for The Yakuza was composed. The score applies both and musical influences in what director Sydney Pollack described as a way that 'felt and sounded Japanese without being too strange for western ears.'

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