The Yakuza | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The Yakuza is slowed down considerably by Pollack's solemnly eclectic direction and the endlessly expository dialogue which tends to make the whole exercise, bloody as it is, more explanatory than exclamatory.

It is an enormously complex film that defies description.

Sydney Pollack... directed "The Yakuza" with as much attention to the tender as the tough.

It is very dull indeed, and even Mitchum can't save it.

Instead of settling for a straight action picture, writers Paul and Leonard Schrader were more ambitious and have come up with a hard-to-follow plot that ends in a burst of pussywillow idiocy that bends the mind.