# American Yakuza (1993)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Crime, Action, Thriller
**Directed by**: Frank A. Cappello
**Written by**: Takashige Ichise, John Allen Nelson, Max Strom
**Starring**: Viggo Mortensen, Ryo Ishibashi, Michael Nouri, Franklyn Ajaye, Yuji Okumoto, Anzu Lawson

> *The mob has a new enemy.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, raw, unhinged

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