REVIEW TANAKA NEW SAMURAI HD MOVIE

Even his Japanese skills go from not knowing the language to being able to hold his own in a conversation, without a sense of growth in between. Skinny and monotone, LetoвЂ™s take on a reservedВ tough guy in a brutal underworld lacks the desired grittiness, even if heвЂ™s doing something similar to Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding RefnвЂ™s вЂњOnly God Forgives.вЂќ But when it comes to creating an arc, itвЂ™s allВ superficial, the way that he becomes very good with a samurai sword, or unflinchinglyВ ruthless as a yakuza. We get pieces of backstory about how heВ left service sometime after World War II, thanks to a clumsy insertion of another American soldier played by Emile Hirsch. Still, casting Leto is not enough to fill in his veryВ empty character, who is left to be a hugeВ mystery for reasons that are themselves unknown. But then вЂњThe OutsiderвЂќ wouldnвЂ™t be a yakuza drama starring Jared Leto, which is just about all this project wants to be.

вЂњThe OutsiderвЂќ could be about any random Japanese person who doesn't know how far the yakuza rabbit hole goes. As it starts, NickВ does have an odd, somewhat intriguing fish-out-of-water presence, but that angle is softened, asideВ from seeing him being dismissedВ often in English.

REVIEW TANAKA NEW SAMURAI HD MOVIE

ItвЂ™s less the strangeness of stubbornlyВ inserting a white American into a world of Japanese men,В than it is howВ this movie does very little with Nick's specific background to make the cringing idea worthwhile.

вЂњJared Leto in a yakuza dramaвЂќ isnвЂ™t the most palatable of pitches, but that somehow turns out to not be the movie's biggest problem. вЂњThe OutsiderвЂќ proves to be even clumsy with brutality, aside from a scene where Nick and others ceremoniously, and disturbingly,В chop some of their fingers off, as inВ one of вЂњThe Outsider''s stone-faced presentations of yakuza rituals. Genre fans will nonetheless get a fewВ gruesome kills after making it through these dull passages, but director Martin Zandvliet has little eye for action here, chopping up or flattening bursts of violence, robbing them of their explosiveness. At first itвЂ™s a disagreement over theВ port of Osaka later itвЂ™s about a joint investment in radios. Nick has a front seat to the growing turmoil between the Shiramatsu gang and the competing Seizu gang, whose turf war fails to create tension itself to the story. As Nick becomes further legit in the yakuza world, referred to as gaijinВ ('outsider')В every now and then by his new peers,В he also sparks up a love interest inВ KiyoshiвЂ™s sister, Miyo (Shioli Kutsuna). It isnвЂ™t long before Leto is able to robotically beat up people with their own typewriters or shoot them with the quickness of John Wick, allВ under the tutelage of the Shiramatsu gang's aging bossВ (Tin Manaka) who becomes like a father to him.

With us still being unsure of why he is in a Japanese prison in the first place, Nick accepts the new life withВ scant hesitation. LetoвЂ™s character Nick finds himself in such an underworld after he helps save the life of a yakuza man named Kiyoshi ( Tadanobu Asano), who offers him a home within the gang.

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