American Yakuza

Port warehouses. Crack of dawn. Distant foghorns. Fresh out of prison, Nick takes a job with a Japanese crime family, saves a life, and swears an oath. Turns out, Nick's an undercover Fed, caught between two warring mobs. Cappello’s lurid crime-thriller plays best as a hard-boiled VHS artifact.

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Frank A. Cappello directed American Yakuza in 1993. See Frank A. Cappello's full filmography, where to start with Frank A. Cappello, or where to go after you've seen everything by Frank A. Cappello.

American Yakuza was released in 1993 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.