There's not much to recommend about this film outside of bringing attention to the sizable ethnic Japanese population in Brazil.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 11, 2021

But while there are sudden bursts of violence throughout, Amorim paces things so sluggishly it ends up being up to the performances to maintain the viewer's interest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2021

Like street-cart fusion cuisine, this film will fill a hole, if you have a particular hankering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2021

It's an irresistible guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2021

There's a lot of walking and talking, but Yakuza Princess never really moves fast enough, not even during its action scenes.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 3, 2021

There's no real momentum or pacing to Yakuza Princess, merely a shaggy assemblage of scenes jumping between characters and continents with little distinction between meat and filler.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 3, 2021

Bloodshed and mysticism are mixed together, and in that heady concoction Yakuza Princess is often violently brilliant... What's less fun is how its mysteries are set up and resolved.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2021

The cynical pro forma luridness "Yakuza Princess" grinds out suggests that sensationalist cinema, or at least its most ostensibly mainstream iteration, is currently depleted of resources.

| Sep 2, 2021

As an intellectually empty piece of genre cinema, "Yakuza Princess" can't even sit alongside movies that offer similarly obtuse ideas but that gain some favor through impressive spectacle.

| Original Score: D | Sep 1, 2021

This grimly self-serious tale of violent destiny is consistently drowned out by Vicente Amorim's overreaching visual style.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 31, 2021

"Yakuza" delivers stylish shootouts and eye-catching swordplay but lacks the dynamic characters and story-telling panache required to lift it into the top grade.

| Aug 30, 2021

There's a lot of style in Yakuza Princess, but it's told in such a choppy, frustrating, momentum-killing manner.

| Aug 24, 2021