
After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he... (Full plot summary below)
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After a three-year prison term in Japan, a yakuza heads for LA to buy two kilos of cocaine. He's going to smuggle it back to Japan, and it's to be his last score: he wants to marry Yoko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and get out of the life. But somebody sets him up, Yoko is shot, and he loses the suitcase of dope. He determines to stay in LA, retrieve the coke, and exact revenge: although he's a drug dealer, he still follows the samurai code of the yakuza. Along the way, he learns that his long-lost younger sister is in Los Angeles, and he teams up with an unlikely partner in his quest for justice: a petty thief who's trying to help a young woman get back to Japan.
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| User ReviewLee ?Riki Takeuchi yet again plays a Yakuza tough guy in this Los Angeles set tale of double-crossing gangsters and one mans vengeance against them. Tries to emulate the "heroic-bloodshed" flicks of Hong Kong cinema but fails. The action scenes may not lack blood but do lack the finess of a John Woo epic. Acting is pretty poor all-round, especially from the American actors playing the gangsters - they are truly laughable! But I do enjoy Riki Takeuchi, he's a limited actor but plays the bad-ass very well, but this certainly isn't among his best films. It entertains at times but mostly for the wrong reasons. |