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Into The Sun
Directed byChristopher Morrison
Written bySteven Seagal
Joe Halpin
Trevor Miller
Produced byFrank Hildebrand
Tracee Stanley-Newell
StarringSteven Seagal
Matthew Davis
Takao Osawa
Eddie George
with William Atherton
and Juliette Marquis
CinematographyDon E. FauntLeRoy
Edited byMichael J. Duthie
Music byStanley Clarke
Distributed byDestination Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release dates
United States Feb 15, 2005
Running time
97 min
CountryUSA / Japan
LanguageEnglish / Japanese
Budget$15,000,000

Into the Sun is a 2005 action film modeled after the American yakuza films The Yakuza and Black Rain.[citation needed] It stars martial artist/actor Steven Seagal. Originally conceived as a remake of Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza, Warner Bros. wouldn't release the rights to the story and the film was consequently reworked into Into the Sun.[citation needed]

Synopsis

When Takayama (Mac Yasuda), the governor of Tokyo, is murdered, it falls on ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Steven Seagal) to track down those responsible. And rookie FBI agent Sean Mac (Matthew Davis) is assigned to work with Hunter on the case.

It was the FBI who actually asked the CIA's Tokyo office to look into the killing, believing it to be linked to the Yakuza, a dangerous Japanese mafia, so the CIA is sniffing around under the auspices of Homeland Security.

Mac proves to be more of a distraction, not really knowledgeable about procedures or Japanese customs. Hunter was raised in Japan, and has a strong understanding of the Yakuza and their mysterious, eccentric, and sinister ways.

Hunter and Mac discover a plan by Kuroda (Takao Osawa), the rising leader of a new Yakuza outfit, to build an enormous drug-dealing network with a Chinese Tong outfit leader named Chen (Ken Lo), and Kuroda is killing everyone who gets in his way.

It was Kuroda who had the governor killed. Hunter turns for help to Kojima (Masato Ibu), the second-in-command 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, they are becoming too powerful.

Kojima tells Hunter that Kojima would love nothing more than to permanently get rid of Kuroda. So who will get to Kuroda first—Hunter or Kojima?

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 Ishikawa's Yakuza outfit.

When Kuroda has Hunter's fiance Nayako (Kanako Yamaguchi) brutally murdered, Hunter's 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, permanently...even if he has to die trying.

Cast

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