A retired detective is called on to help an old army friend whose daughter is being held hostage by yakuza gangsters. Turning to a Japanese assassin who owes him a debt of honour, the cop exploits the hitman's gangland connections to infiltrate Tokyo's underworld. Sydney Pollack's action thriller, starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith and Richard Jordan.

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.