Craig Shugart, Mary Page Keller, Thomas Ian Griffith

On the eve of a big US-Japan trade summit, a reporter gets a hot tip that the Japanese-American head of a big aerospace firm will be selling trade secrets to a Japanese contact. Intent on getting a sc...( read more  read more... )oop, the reporter hires private investigator John Blaylock to help her find out just what information is being handed over. In the course of snooping, the pair are discovered, but not before they learn that the Japanese contact is a member of the Yakuza. When the aerospace executive turns up dead after an apparent suicide, the investigators realize that some very big secrets are being kept by some very important people.

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Directed by: James Becket

Release Date: January 1, 1992

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  • July 22, 2009
    I love this movie. From the cheesy acting, to the huge shoulder pads, this is an old time fav.
  • April 15, 2007
    Not a bad yakuza action with Thomas Ian Griffith from The Karate Kid Part III.

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