When a member of the Japanese Yakuza is arrested in New York, detectives Nick Conklin and Charlie Vincent are assigned to escort him to Japan. Conklin in particular is none too pleased that they are not prosecuting the prisoner themselves. They no sooner arrive in Japan however than they are duped and turn their prisoner over to gangsters posing as police. The detectives stay on in Japan hoping to work with their Japanese counterparts but have some difficulty dealing with local protocol and customs. Over time, Conklin develops a working relationship with Detective Masahiro and together they manage to ensure justice is served.
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
I was searching a review from a Japanese reviewer and found one, very tough with the film. It made me react here.<br/><br/>First, I consider myself as neutral as nor American nor Japanese even if I know those two fascinating countries inhabitants a little. And I did not feel the same the Japanese reviewer did. In my sense the film does not mock Japan. It does not show Japan as &#39;inferior&#39; but as different. And this is all the interest of this film whose purpose in my opinion is to show the opposite mentalities and culture. Both sides are presented. The bad and the good ones.<br/><br/>The Bad : Japoneses are showed as ridiculous with red tape and bureaucracy matters, with shy behaviors, weird violence (for occidental people). But Americans too. Those are presented as brutal stupid beasts, for example when Charlie Vincent run after a motorbike without understanding the trap is going into or when Nick Conklin does not manage to restrain himself from knocking everywhere. Or when Nick signs a stupid sheet of paper without distrust. The two Americans are also presented as arrogant as they don&#39;t even think that foreigners could speak English .. because they don&#39;t imagine it is even possible. Even the American/Japanese prostitute rejects their arrogance. Also American police is presented as corrupted and messy … So no one wins here I guess.<br/><br/>The good : Japaneses are also presented as good. Cops are straight but cooperative and honor respectful, mainly instructed, efficient. Even if they lack of adaptiveness and are bad inspired to reject the American cops help. The mafia is well presented too. Franckly, they really are scary guys but gain respect with their honor code. Sato is impressive. <br/><br/>Here I agree with the Japanese reviewer : The Americans are glorified (music helps :). Nick manages on his own (yet with the help of Mas) to solve a difficult case in a country he obviously even doesn&#39;t know. This is clearly the weakness of the film.<br/><br/>Yet what I really appreciated was the oppositions between Mas and Nick. Wiseness and honor of Mas, for example when he feels insulted by Nicks thief behavior or when he learns from Nick. Humanity and pugnacity of Nick.<br/><br/>I also liked mafia&#39;s leader speech with Nick. Here we definitively can&#39;t say the film only runs for America, obviously.<br/><br/>One regret. We definitively see too little of Japan. Even if the film does much in presenting a country that we mainly bad know in occident, it could have done more. That said, I think this was not the purpose of the director who just wanted to focus on mindsets.<br/><br/>Another regret : the ridiculous sounds of the motorbikes especially in the beginning of the film and in the last scene. <br/><br/>The actors are all perfect. The soundtrack is really cool. Contrarily to the Japanese reviewer, I appreciated the way the director represents Japan, with subtlety, as Japan is all about. And USA with strength, as USA are all about too, sometimes too much :). If the oppositions between the two countries are exaggerated, it is in the purpose of showing them better and make understand, I guess. This is a &#39;must-be-watched&#39; film for me. One of the best of Ridley Scott.
Okay, so I will firstly start off with the fact that, Michael Douglas was superb in this film. Best role he has ever portrayed, and he deserves a gold star for his efforts in this movie alone. Now, with that being said…<br/><br/>This was a really bad movie. I don&#39;t know what Ridley Scott was thinking, taking this film on, because it just really didn&#39;t work. It was almost like they followed two characters around Japan for two hours, and we got to see all the boring crap they did. I really didn&#39;t feel intense, scared, nervous or fearful for any of the characters.<br/><br/>But, Andy Garcia was kind of hot…and he was really funny in it. And humor wise, I shouldn&#39;t discount Douglas, either. He actually made me laugh a few times, which he never does.<br/><br/>I really found the movie slow, lacking emotion, and tedious at times. Not very good…
Director Ridley Scott's visual gifts are still evident in Black Rain. But with retread plot and characters, Scott's stylistic flourishes become irritating clutter.
It&#39;s part of the bushido code of conduct that the ancient samurai and the yakuza gangsters adhere to. During the days of the Japanese warlords and the samurai, a dishonorable act carried the punishment of severing one&#39;s own finger or part of. The idea was that a samurai that was missing part of a finger or multiple fingers wouldn&#39;t be able to wield his katana (samurai sword) as effectively. The Japanese word for the act is yubitsume. On August 6th and 9th, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. The first, on August 6th, was the western city of Hiroshima, which had been a major Japanese shipping port and industrial production site. The second bomb was dropped on another western city, Nagasaki, three days later when Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender. Following the devastation of those bombings, Hirohito ordered his country&#39;s surrender, ending the United States&#39; war with Japan.<br/><br/>Sugai&#39;s involvement in this chain of events is that he lived in one of those cities – which city is not revealed – as a boy and was there when the bomb was dropped. As he states &quot;I was 10 when the B-29 came. We were underground for three days. When we came up, the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain; black rain.&quot; What Sugai is suggesting is that the pollution from the atomic fallout had somehow turned the rain black. Sugai goes on to say that following the war American values were forced on to his people by the United States, who had agreed to aid in the rebuilding of Japanese society due to the destruction caused not only by the atomic bombings but also from the many other non-atomic bombings of other Japanese cities during the war in the Pacific. The United States became Japan&#39;s occupying force following the war and Japanese citizens like Sugai felt that their cultural and societal identity was slowly being stolen from them as a result of such policies. Sugai&#39;s ultimate plan is to flood the American economy with counterfeit money and reap the benefits of such a crime.
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