The yakuza cartel

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Movie
German title The yakuza cartel
Original title No way back
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Frank A. Cappello
script Frank A. Cappello
production Aki Komine
Joel Soisson
music David C. Williams
camera Richard Clabaugh
cut Sonny Baskin
occupation

No Way Back is an American action film from the year 1995 .

action

Shortly after a Japanese man was beaten to death with baseball bats by the radical right-wing street gang Scalp at night, FBI agent Zack Grant tried to smuggle the Japanese Seiko Kobayashi into the scalpan leader Victor Serlano as a prostitute. Instead of just installing a microphone in his hotel room, she pulls out her gun and kills all bodyguards next to Victor before she throws herself to her death. Since Zack was in charge of the operation and is in bad shape due to previous failures, he is close to being fired. To save his job, he should finally present a success. He quickly sets out to find the reason why such a decent and promising FBI career ended in amok. When he connects to the in New York City living Yakuza takes Yuji Kobayashi, he travels with Agent Gim Takakura there and infiltrates as an art dealer. But the deal goes wrong, Gim dies, the hiding place is stormed by Scalps and Zack kidnaps Yuji.

While on the run, Zack receives a call from Victor's father, Frank Salano. He had previously sworn revenge and now demands Yuji, or Zack's son Erik will die himself. He actually wanted to save his career, but instead he accepts the deal and flies to Los Angeles with Yuji . When Yuji learns of the deal, he takes the first opportunity to hijack the cockpit and force the plane to make an emergency landing in Arizona . With the young flight attendant Mary as hostage, he escapes into the desert, where Zack follows him in a convertible, as does Salano's men. On the way, Salano's men not only take Mary with them, but also Zack and Yuji, whose cars got stuck or exploded. You go to Eagle Rock to deliver Yuji to the Scalps. Once there, however, there is a showdown, with the FBI and the Yakuza interfering, so that they shoot each other and Zack, Mary and Yuji can successfully escape.

With Salano, Zack then makes a meeting point where he can exchange Yuji for his son. You have to go to Griffith Lake, just outside Boston . But during the night they are stopped by a police patrol who arrests all three. Salano's men overhear the police radio and attack the car, killing the policeman. With the shotgun that Yuri grabs, he kills all of Salano's men and tells Zack that Seiko was his sister and that Victor killed in revenge, because he had previously killed her father, the godfather of the Yakuza, with his scalps. But he also declares himself ready to take revenge on Salano again. The three attacked the next morning around eight o'clock from different directions. While Mary distracts most of the guards and Yuri then shoots them, Zack swims from behind to the boat from Salano to free his son. When Salano notices this, he takes Erik as a human shield. Yuri shoots him, which Salano pulls Erik into the lake. Zack dives after and can barely save Erik from drowning.

criticism

Entertainment Weekly's Denise Lanctot panned the film. You can safely “skip it and go straight to a video game”, because there “slim story, drawing board characters and cartoon violence are guaranteed for several hours of fun” and not for a weak “cable TV film” as is the case here.

The lexicon of international films said: "A briskly staged action film, the speed of which, however, cannot mask the construction defects and the illogical nature of the story."

background

The film premiered in Japan on May 13, 1995 . After its US theatrical release on December 20, 1996, it came straight to VHS in Germany on January 1, 1997 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denise Lanctot: No Way Back on ew.com from June 20, 1997 (English), accessed on March 9, 2013
  2. ↑ The Yakuza Cartel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used