The Yakuza Way
1999, English. Directed by Toshimichi Ohkawa.
After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he learns that his long-lost younger sister is in Los Angeles, and he teams up with an unlikely partner in his quest for justice: a petty thief who's trying to help a young woman get back to Japan.
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 19 February 1999
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Toshimichi Ohkawa
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The Yakuza Way runs 82 minutes (1h 22m).
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The Yakuza Way isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 19 February 1999. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Yakuza Way?
If you liked The Yakuza Way, try The Last Days of American Crime, Showdown in Little Tokyo, The Protector.
Who directed The Yakuza Way?
The Yakuza Way (1999) was directed by Toshimichi Ohkawa and stars Riki Takeuchi, Eugene Nomura, George Cheung.