Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
- martial arts
- japan
- police
- gangster
- yakuza
- organized crime
- osaka
- japan
- police chase
- action hero
- amused
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Yūsaku Matsuda — Sato
- Shigeru Kōyama — Ohashi
- John Spencer — Oliver
- Yuya Uchida — Nashida
- Guts Ishimatsu — Katayama
- Tomisaburō Wakayama — Sugai
- Miyuki Ono — Miyuki
- Luis Guzmán — Frankie
- John Costelloe — The Kid
- Stephen Root — Berg
- Richard Riehle — Crown
- Directed
- Ridley Scott
- Written
- Craig Bolotin, Warren Lewis
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 1,282 ratings
- Studio
- Pegasus Film Partners, Paramount Pictures, Jaffe-Lansing
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
