Watched this last night when I couldn't sleep. It's kind of an understated Japanese gangster movie. Set in 1954, it opens with an American in a Japanese prison with a bunch of Yakuza. He helps one guy out and that gets him out of prison and into a job working for the gang. There is very little dialog and no explanation of how we got here. I don't think Jared utters more than a couple dozen lines. The atmosphere is a little tense. Things are mostly quiet but occasionally we get brief bits of violence, but those come out of the blue. Two guys will be having a discussion and then boom, one of them is dead. I can only attribute this to the Japanese being inscrutable. Someone more in tune with Yakuza sensibilities might be able to make some sense of these incidents.
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