Despite its Japanese background (very picturesquely shot) and high level of violence, this is a routine crime thriller with a gun-barrel-load of familiar ingredients.

Michael Douglas is the rule-bending cop sent to Osaka with an oriental mastercrook (Yusaku Matsuda, splendidly villainous) captured in America.

You'll guess what happens at Tokyo Airport, and subsequently, given that Andy Garcia is Douglas's happy-go-lucky, honest partner, Ken Takakura the Japanese associate reluctant to go out on a limb for Douglas, and Kate Capshaw the club hostess who tells him to leave town.