Two New York cops arrest a hitman working for the Japanese mafia, and are ordered to extradite him back to Osaka to stand trial. However, the prisoner gives them the slip on arrival, and as the detectives hunt him down with the aid of local law enforcement officers they become snared in a vicious gang war. Ridley Scott's thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura and Yasaku Matsuda.

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.