Into the Sun - In the net of the Yakuza

Movie
German title	Into the Sun - In the net of the Yakuza
Original title	Into the Sun
Country of production	USA , ; Japan
original language	English
Publishing year	2005
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK No youth approval
Rod
Director	Christopher Morrison; (as mink )
script	Steven Seagal ; Joe Halpin ; Trevor Miller
production	Frank Hildebrand ; Elie Samaha
music	Stanley Clarke
camera	Don E. FauntLeRoy
cut	Michael J. Duthie
occupation
	Steven Seagal : Travis Hunter; Takao Ōsawa : Kuroda; Matthew Davis : Sean Max; William Atherton : Agent Block; Juliette Marquis : Jewel; Chiaki Kuriyama : Nayako; Eddie George : Jones; Ken Lo : Chen; Kosuke Toyohara : Fudomyo-o; Akira Terao : Matsuda, Kuroda's lieutenant;

Into the Sun is an American - Japanese action film from 2005 with Steven Seagal in the role of CIA agent Travis Hunter .

action

The governor of Tokyo is brutally murdered. The head of the Tokyo department of the CIA sends his best man, Travis Hunter, to solve the murder of the politician. Travis, who grew up in Japan and learned the fighting techniques there from a former yakuza fighter, can use his old contacts in the scene and learns that a struggle for power in the yakuza is breaking out between the old and a young yakuza named Kuroda is. The ambitious Kuroda wants to build a large drug cartel with his gang and the Chinese mafia . Hunter has very little time to prevent the plot as the yakuza use violence to get closer to their goal. Numerous murders on both sides rock Tokyo. Hunter takes up the fight with the army of the Yakuza and can bring them down.

criticism

"Easily transparent action film about Steven Seagal, who does what he expects and once again swears an oath of disclosure, but at least allowed to act with a reasonably amusing sidekick."

- Lexicon of international film

In his review of the film, Ivo Ritzer shows the hero as a “metyphysical hero, a radical individualist who opposes any totalitarian structure”. The film is, however, "after a stylish title sequence, a conventional yakuza eiga without any major action elements."

background

The film was released direct to DVD on April 19, 2005. On November 11, 2007, it appeared on ProSieben as a free TV premiere.

Web links

Into the Sun - Im Netz der Yakuza in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Into the Sun - Im Netz der Yakuza atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Comparison of the cut versions Pro7 from 16 - No youth release from Into the Sun - In the network of Yakuza at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

↑ Into the Sun - In the Net of the Yakuza. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
^ Ritzer, rivals under the red sun; Into the Sun , in: Splatting Image , No. 52, June 2005, pp. 73/74

[1] Into the Sun - In the Net of the Yakuza. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[2] Ritzer, rivals under the red sun; Into the Sun , in: Splatting Image , No. 52, June 2005, pp. 73/74