Into the Sun (2005 film)
Into the Sun is a 2005 American action film directed by Christopher Morrison, and written by and starring Steven Seagal. The film modeled after the American yakuza films The Yakuza and Black Rain.citation needed Originally conceived as a remake of Sydney Pollacks The Yakuza, Warner Bros. would not release the rights to the story and the film was consequently reworked into Into the Sun.citation needed The film was directed by Christopher Morrison, also known as mink.
Hunter and Mac discover a plan by Kuroda Takao Osawa, the new boss of a new Yakuza outfit, to build an enormous drugdealing network with a Chinese Tong outfit leader named Chen Ken Lo, and Kuroda is killing everyone who gets in his way. It is revaled that Kuroda masterminded the governors assassination. Hunter turns for help to Kojima Masato Ibu, the secondincommand of an old school Yakuza outfit run by elderly Oyabun Ishikawa Shoji Oki. Hunter has been told that Kojima is the only Yakuza player who is capable of defeating Kuroda. Hunter visits Kojima, who says that now that the new Yakuza are joining forces with the Tongs, becoming too powerful. Kojima tells Hunter that he would love nothing more than to permanently get rid of Kuroda.As Hunter gets closer to Kuroda, he begins to endanger everyone associated with him. First, Kuroda has Ishikawa killed, making Kojima the new leader of Ishikawas Yakuza outfit. Mac gets out of his depth and is also murdered. When Kuroda has Hunters fiance Nayako Kanako Yamaguchi brutally murdered, Hunters search for Kuroda becomes devastatingly personal. Teaming up with CIA spook Jewel Juliette Marquis and tattoo artist Kawamura Daisuke Honda, whose wife and young child were killed by Kuroda, Hunter sets out to take down Kuroda in his hiding place in a temple. ........
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