Gavin O'Connor ("Warrior") is set to direct the contemporary Japan-set thriller "Yakuza" at Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment says Deadline. The story follows an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of a post-tsunami Japan.
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