Yakuza Princess

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Yakuza Princess
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byVicente Amorim
Written by
  • Fernando Toste
  • Kimi Lee
Based onSamurai Shiro
by Danilo Beyruth
Produced by
  • Tubaldini Shelling
  • Andre Skaf
Starring
CinematographyGustavo Hadba
Edited byDanilo Lemos
Music by
  • Lucas Marcier
  • Fabiano Krieger
Production
companies
  • Tubaldini Shelling
  • Andre Skaf
  • Filmland International
Distributed by XYZ Films
Release date
  • August 2021 (2021-08)(Fantasia Fest) [1]
CountryBrazil
LanguageEnglish
Box office$35,763 [2]

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. The film stars Masumi, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Eijiro Ozaki, and Kenny Leu. [3]

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Synopsis

The head of a notorious Yakuza syndicate is killed in Japan and his only heir is sent to Brazil as a baby. Twenty years later, living in São Paulo, Akemi (Masumi Tsunoda) discovers that she has inherited half of the Yakuza clan and that the other half wants her dead. Takeshi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), a mobster loyal to the late boss, comes to Brazil to protect her. At the same time, an amnesiac foreigner (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) wakes up in a hospital and crosses her path. Akemi will start a war and chart her own destiny.

Cast

Production

In October 2019, it was announced that the singer Masumi will make her big screen debut opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the action film that completed filming in Brazil. [4] On February 10, 2021, it was reported that XYZ Films would sell worldwide rights save Latin America, in the European Film Market, in early March. [5] On April 6, 2021 it was announced that Magnet Releasing has acquired the U.S distribution rights. [6]

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References

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  2. "Yakuza Princess". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved October 8, 2021.
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