A brief look of "Yakuza" in Western film.
Deadline reports that the studio has optioned a script about an American POW who, after the war, rises in the ranks to become a member of the Japanese crime syndicate. Sons of Anarchy’s John and Art Linson are producing.
Left photo: A brief look of “Yakuza” in Western film: 1989′s “Black Rain” with Ken Takakura and Micheal Douglas; 1991′s “Showdown In Little Tokyo” with Brandon Lee and Dolph Lundgren; 1975′s “The Yakuza” with Ken Takakura; 1993′s “American Yakuza” with Viggo Mortensen.
