

Are You Japanese?
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Takeshi KitanoAniki Yamamoto
- Omar EppsDenny
- Claude MakiKen
- Susumu TerajimaKato
- Masaya KatōShirase
- Royale WatkinsJay
- Lombardo BoyarMo
- Ryo IshibashiIshihara
- James ShigetaSugimoto
- Tatyana AliLatifa
Crew
- Takeshi KitanoDirector
- Takeshi KitanoWriter
- Katsumi YanagijimaDirector of Photography
- Joe HisaishiOriginal Music Composer
- Takeshi KitanoEditor
- Yoshinori OtaEditor
- Jeremy ThomasProducer
- Ann CarliProducer
- Peter WatsonProducer
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