is this a good film?
>>70564837
Ehhh.... it's alright.
>>70564837
It's great, I love it.
Medium.
>>70564837
Decent action film for the time, even if it was just exploiting the 80s public fascination with japanese culture.
>>70564837
You asked the same question 3 days ago. Just watch it faggot
There are two movies from the 80s that deal with japanese people that I love
Black Rain and Gung Ho
They are so blatant in their "THESE ARE JAPANESE PEOPLE, LOOK AT HOW DIFFERENT THEY ARE FROM US, BUT THEY ARE MORE LIKE AMERICANS THAN YOU THINK" ways that was truly an 80s thing
>>70565011
Rising Sun also did it well, albeit in the early 90s.
Jackie Chan says it's a bad movie stereotyping the Japanese and I take his word for it.
>>70565112
Preferred American Yakuza
Never seen it, but it looks like a movie that would have a killer synthwave-esque soundtrack.
>>70565011
>>70565112
Can add Year of the Dragon to that list with Mickey Rourke.
One of his better films.
China, not Japan tho, but still, they were all treated as "Asian/Oriental", and one hardly makes distinctions today even.
>>70565011
I only like Gun Ho. It's still wrong but at least the Japanese in it aren't creepy as fuck as those in Black Rain and Rising Sun
i was sad when charlie was kill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzPUa-6BLE
>>70564837
The villain is 10/10 and it's shame the actor died not long after it came out. He basically carries the entire film, the rest is sleepwalking Michael Douglas and Ridley's Blade Runner B-roll.
And Kate Capshaw is just as terrible in this as she was in Temple of Doom. She can't do "smokey" femme fatale" any more then she can do wisecracking buddy.
>>70565206
>killer synthwave-esque soundtrack
Not really, you get some generic 80s pop/rock tracks, Hans Zimmer, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
>>70565234
That's a weird one. I specifically remember when Mickey's character says "I have actually studies your history of coming here and worked on the railways"
It's like the director has read some Asian American studies
It's all a thing of the past now that both Japanese Korean and Chinese are really there.
>>70565335
Perturbator re-dub when?
>>70565371
The film is too slow paced for that.
>>70565335
I dunno, I have a soft-spot for late 80's-early-90's Zimmer. It's just as hilariously operatic as his other work but not quite as overbearing, it kind of evens out for me.
>Black Rain
>Rising Sun
>Lost in Translation
>>70565519
>It's just as hilariously operatic as his other work but not quite as overbearing
The soundtrack isn't overbearing, and while operatic, the way he incorporated a japenese aesthetic into it just doesn't sound quite right. He did a much better job with Last Samurai.
Obligatory weird Japan
Yes, it's pretty good.
Year of the Dragon is better though.
