Yakuza Princess

Like others have said... I enjoyed the first half.

After that, it's as if the writers and director changed.

2nd 1/2 was all over the place. Was never an A movie, but had potential to be one.

Worth an early A. M. watch if like me, you have insomnia. Save your daylight hours for something more productive.

It's rated as less than 5 stare, and I have to agree with that rating.

1st Oscar, best editing, anyone can make a 50 minutes movie to 120 minutes long should win an Oscar.

2nd Oscar, best artress, she has the perfect consistancy to keep the same face without any expression for 120 mins, even Mary Streep had never achieved that.

Still have no idea why I rated this garbage 3 stars. I just want to see some Japanese killing some people, but everyone just keep talking and talking and pretenting to be Leon the professional. Your best choice is skip this movie, no $hit!!

Complete waste of time. Just different scenes put together to make a film.

Yakuza's plot had potential, even though Rhys Meyer's character was random. But it didn't capitalize on anything - the fighting is meh, the acting is meh, and it's not that fun to watch.

...had any one of the five writers actually created a screenplay that wasn't so choppy, derivative, incoherent, convoluted and riddled with plot and technical issues.

In the 111 min runtime, there was too much walking and talking with hardly any depth to the story or its characters. It had too much filler and very little substance. Many scenes were too long and/or unnecessary. Was this even edited? The scene transitions were horrible. And all that nonsense mystery didn't help the story either.

What this film did have going for it, was decent cinematography, well choreographed fight scenes with awesome gore effects, and excellent performances. Considering this was MASUMI's first full length feature film - as a lead, with only three prior small T. V. roles, she nailed it, wow! I can't wait to see her in more action films, she's a natural. The location and production sets were on point, and the score was fitting and not overbearing as it usually is in many B films.

Had this film been cut down to about 90 mins, with better editing and scene transitions, and more character development instead of all the filler, I may have given it an 8 or 9, but as is, it's only a generous 6/10 from me.