Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
May 16, 1992 | IMDB 6.7
124 min Watch NowComedy, Crime
An 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.
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