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Released
2001 · FILM

Yamakasi

A group of urban parkour warriors battles through the dangerous streets of Paris, using their extraordinary agility to steal from the rich and save a child's life.

Directed by
Ariel Zeitoun, Julien Seri
Written by
Luc Besson, Philippe Lyon
Runtime
90 min
Language
FR
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French film written by Luc Besson. It showcases the abilities of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who fight against injustice in the Parisian ghetto. Using parkour, they steal from the wealthy to cover medical expenses for a child who was injured while imitating their techniques.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Yohann CostedoatShot by Philippe PiffeteauScored by JoeystarrDesigned by Caroline Duru

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Yamakasi - Die Samurai der Modernede
  • Yamakasi: Los samurais de los tiempos modernoses
  • Yamakasi - I nuovi samuraiit

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