Remington Steele (TV Series) Your Steele the One for Me (1982) User Reviews

We are in the wrong movie

[horace-mcconnell · 8/10 · 19 January 2008]

This episode starts a new story arc for the series. Laura Holt takes the neophyte Steele on a case that starts out as a simple traffic accident and ends up as a multiple murder.

Steele complicates the investigation with his lack of knowledge and his pension to pontificate when he should be quiet.

Steele trying to find a framework to understand the case, begins to find comparisons to the 1970's cult film Yakuza, a movie about the Japanese Underworld. Only as the facts come in we realize as does Steele we are in the wrong movie; the movie that we are in is the Third Man.

Keye Luke, who is Chinese, has a supporting role as a Japanese Mobster.

Your Steele the One for Me

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 26 November 2017]

A distraught young Japanese man wants Remington Steele's help to search for his missing older brother. Laura discovers he died in a car crash.

Steele and Murphy Michaels put aside their differences to investigate and find that the brother's death could be linked to the Japanese Yakuza gang.

The character of Remington Steele is a film buff so there is a lot of discussion about the Sydney Pollack directed movie, The Yakuza. At the time this was a way to explain to the audience who the Yakuza actually were. The plot though had more in connection with The Third Man.

It was rather strange to see Laura kitted out in a geisha outfit.