The Yakuza
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1974 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Sydney Pollack |
| Cast | Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman |
| Genre | Crime Drama, Action, Neo-Noir |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Yakuza | – |
| Español | El Yakuza | – |
| Français | Le Yakuza | – |
| Deutsch | Der Yakuza | – |
| Português | O Yakuza | – |
| Italiano | Lo Yakuza | – |
| Русский | Якудза | Yakudza |
| 中文（简体） | 碼頭幫 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 碼頭幫 | – |
| 한국어 | 야쿠자 | Yakuja |
| ไทย | ยากูซ่า | Yakuza |
| Tiếng Việt | Yakuza | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Yakuza | – |
| 日本語 | ザ・ヤクザ | Za Yakudza |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which personal debt logic and institutional loyalty collide within cross-cultural criminal obligation
■ Synopsis
A former detective is drawn into Japan’s criminal underworld to resolve a past debt that binds two opposing moral systems.
■ RECIPE Tags
#Obligation #Loyalty #Debt #Identity #Code
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Cultural Entry (Western law vs Japanese honor structure)
Reason: The protagonist enters a foreign moral system where legality is secondary to obligation
Related Film: The Godfather - Middle: Personal Debt Structure (past action binding present consequence)
Reason: A past favor creates irreversible obligation across worlds
Related Film: Eastern Promises - Core: Honor-Based Enforcement System (non-state justice hierarchy)
Reason: Criminal authority functions as a parallel ethical order overriding legal systems
Related Film: Heat
■ Secondary Axes
- Identity Displacement: Individual morality dissolving under foreign code structures
Related Film: A History of Violence - Truth Negotiation Under Surveillance Systems: moral ambiguity under pressure of pursuit and exposure
Related Film: The Godfather Part II
■ Person
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman
■ Structural Tags
#CrossCulturalConflict #MoralCodeStructure #CriminalHierarchy
■ Attribute Tags
#1974 #UnitedStates #NeoNoir
