Steven Seagal,
Takao Osawa,
Akira Terao,
Chiaki Kuriyama,
Eddie George
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When a fierce new breed of criminal emerges from the dreaded yakuza, the CIA must resort to a crime-fighting powerhouse whose penchant for mayhem rivals that of even the most hardened gangster in this... read more
DVD Release Date: February 15, 2005
Stats: 245 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (245)
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April 20, 2008
After failing to get the green light to remake The Yakuza, Seagal went to work on this film instead, which is surprisingly one of his best in years. Seagal not only starred in this film, but also wrote the screenplay and executive produced it and it's a very good film. Good actio... read more
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February 29, 2008
Steven Seagal back to his best, some top action sequences. This movie music playing in about every place, a novelty chopstick death, Eddie George getting shot up at the beginning, swordplay.
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January 29, 2007
After watching Sydney Pollack's Yakuza I was itching to see another yakuza based film. After seeing this I should have just applied some balm.
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March 25, 2009
Steven Seagal speaks english to people that only speak japanese back... This doesn't make sense Do they understand english or not I don't get it.
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April 25, 2008
this ine is action and an older steven Seagal getting back on track i think is the best way to describe this one.still very good
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June 10, 2006
THis was an awesome movie, it's amazing to know that he actually can speak japanese, at least that is what I thought it was.
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...all one really expects out of a Seagal movie is a lot of arm-breaking and twirling kicks. Full Review
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