"When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate."
Robert Mitchum
as Harry Kilmer
Ken Takakura
as Tanaka Ken
Eiji Okada
as Tono
Herb Edelman
as Wheat
Richard Jordan
as Dusty
James Shigeta
as Goro
Keiko Kishi
as Eiko
Christina Kokubo
as Hanako
Kyōsuke Machida
as Kato
Brian Keith
as George Tanner
Eiji Gō
as Spider
Lee Chirillo
as Louise
M. Hisaka
as Boyfriend
William Ross
as Tanner's Guard
Akiyama
as Tono's Guard
Harada
as Goro's Doorman
Robert Towne
Screenplay
Dave Grusin
Original Music Composer
Leonard Schrader
Story
Don Guidice
Editor
Sydney Pollack
Director
Paul Schrader
Thomas Stanford
Producer
Kōzō Okazaki
Director of Photography
Richard Parker
Special Effects
Basil Fenton-Smith
Sound Mixer
Bill Saito
Stunts
Michael Hamilburg
Co-Producer
Michael D. Moore
Assistant Director
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Stephen B. Grimes
Second Unit Director
Yoshiyuki Ishida
Art Direction
Gary Morris
Makeup Artist
Arthur Piantadosi
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Fredric Steinkamp
Production Design
Ed Scheid
Sound Effects Designer
Duke Callaghan