Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired U.S rights to “Yakuza Princess,” an action thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Japanese American singer Masumi.

Adapting Danilo Beyrouth's graphic novel, Samurai Shiro (which gets a rather cheeky cameo of its own), hard-hitting crime flick Yakuza Princess takes place in a greasy, neon-lit version of São ...

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.

Yet, in nonsensical fashion, when Akemi (singer-songwriter Masumi), the Japanese-born, Brazilian-raised heroine of Vicente Amorim’s “Yakuza Princess,” toasts in front of her late grandfather ...

Yoshino Somei captured anime fans' hearts as a yakuza princess who knew how to stand up for herself. Along the way, she met ...

Sono cold opens with a zippy toothpaste commercial, as performed by a 10-year-old future yakuza princess Mitsuko (Nanoka Hara/Fumi Nikaidô), who is literally knee-deep in blood by the end of the ...

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her ...