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| | Amazon.com: Minbo: Video: Yasuo Daichi,Nobuko Miyamoto,Kôichi Ueda,Mirei Asaoka,Noboru Mitani,Akira Nakao,Hideji ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | They employ a variety of schemes to con the hotel out of 'hush-money.' The hotel needs to rid itself of the Yakuza and finally begins to fight back by hiring Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer who is an expert at dealing with these criminals on their own terms. |
 | | Itami's skillful blend of comedy and drama is on strong display, and characters wax and wane between pathetic, noble, scared and ridiculous. |
 | | Itami himself was stabbed by a member of the uyoku, the Japanese right wing, which is affiliated with the Yakuza, shortly after this film was released. |
| www.amazon.com /Minbo-Yasuo-Daichi/dp/630381834X (2234 words) |
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