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- Based on a graphic novel, “Yakuza Princess” is not a Japanese film; it’s a Brazilian one. The director is Vicente Amorim and the graphic novel, called “Samurai Shiro,” is by Danilo Beyruth. Much of the action takes place in São Paulo, which has one of the largest Japanese expatriate communities in the world.
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Yakuza Princess is a 2021 Brazilian action thriller film directed by Vicente Amorim, with an screenplay by Amorim, Fernando Toste, Kimi Lee and Tubaldini Shelling, based on the graphic novel Samurai Shiro by Danilo Beyruth.
Yakuza Princess: Directed by Vicente Amorim. With MASUMI, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Eijiro Ozaki. The heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate forges an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates.
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- Thriller
- Vicente Amorim
- 2021-10-07
Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil — the largest Japanese diaspora in the world — Yakuza Princess follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate.
- Vicente Amorim
- Tsuyoshi Ihara
Synopsis Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil -- the largest Japanese diaspora in the world -- YAKUZA PRINCESS follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is...
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- Vicente Amorim
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- Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Sep 1, 2021 · Based on Danilo Beyruth's graphic novel Samurai Shiro, the upcoming Brazilian action movie Yakuza Princess centers on Akemi, a young Japanese woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil who finds herself unexpectedly thrown into an underworld war.
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Aug 27, 2021 · Synopsis : Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil — the largest Japanese diaspora in the world — YAKUZA PRINCESS follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate.
A film about loss, with themes of identity and belonging, and in a stylish, thrilling, and mysterious neo-noir package with strong elements from the jidaigeki genre and samurai history, Vicente Amorim’s Yakuza Princess treads in the footsteps of a dark legacy. A home sits beneath the hills as a flag burns ahead.
