![]() Pollack’s attachment meant interest from Robert Redford-who had already worked with Pollack in Jeremiah Johnson and The Way We Were-in the lead role, though Redford deemed himself too young and Mitchum remained. To the director’s unwelcome surprise, Mitchum did not want to work with Aldrich, so Sydney Pollack was brought in to replace him. While Takakura was almost always guaranteed to play a role, the crucial positions of the director and the lead actor-who would portray an aging former detective sent to Japan in service to an old friend-were still in transition.Įarly in the pre-production stages, it looked like Robert Aldrich would direct with Lee Marvin in the lead role, until Marvin’s clash with Warner Brothers led to Robert Mitchum taking the role. The unique neo-noir Japanese gangster movie The Yakuza was conceptualized by brothers Paul and Leonard Schrader based on Leonard’s letters to Paul while living in Japan, particularly about the yakuza and the screen presence of Ken Takakura. ![]() Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, tough former detective Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer in The Yakuza (1974) Vitals
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