Year: 1999
Runtime: 82 mins
Language: English
Director: Toshimichi Ohkawa
After a three‑year Japanese prison term, a yakuza goes to Los Angeles to buy two kilos of cocaine for one final smuggling run, hoping to marry his girlfriend Yoko and leave crime. Betrayed, Yoko is shot and the drug suitcase vanishes. He stays in LA, vows revenge, follows the yakuza’s samurai code, learns his estranged sister lives there, and allies with a petty thief helping a woman return to Japan.
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