This movie has got the highest deal of violent deaths per square meter I have ever seen in cinema. And many of them totally gratuitous. The movie is well directed and quite solid in technical terms but in terms of content it leaves much to be desired. As a matter of fact it's only the story of a Japanese Yakuza gangster who goes to Los Angeles and after becoming the boss of a small group of petty drug dealers to which his younger brother already belongs, strengthens it and starts a war against other gangster families first also Japanese, then Latino and finally the Italian Mafia whose gun power is much higher since they use machine guns against Yakuza's pistols. We have the opportunity to watch also the Japanese code of honour in action even among Yakuzas and this is perhaps the most interesting feature of the movie. The rest is rather uninteresting, showing a succession of killings which happen almost every minute with lots of blood spilled everywhere and bodies jumping like puppets under fire. A weak story though told in an efficient style.
