The Outsider (2018)
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
The Outsider (2018)
Information
Released Year: 2018
Runtime: 120 minutes
Directors: Martin Zandvliet
Casts: Emile Hirsch, Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Masaki Miura, Nao Omori, Rory Cochrane, Min Tanaka, Ray Nicholson, Shiori Kutsuna, Young Dais
IMDB: The Outsider (2018)
Storyline
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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Reviews
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Slant Magazine -
The film is subsumed by the unshakable sense that Jared Leto is intended to make Martin Zandvliet's take on the yakuza underworld more palatable for American audiences.
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IGN -
It takes extremely familiar plot points and plays them straight, adding nothing new except the premise - a white American joining the Yakuza - which ultimately has very little to do with how the story unfolds. The film might be a functional crime drama but it’s an incredibly unremarkable one.
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The A.V. Club -
Asano and the rest of the Japanese cast provide baseline credibility, but they can’t generate excitement from this morass of clichés.
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Los Angeles Times -
The Outsider is a slick copy of multiple, much-better films and TV series. It's so well-polished it's practically featureless.
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RogerEbert.com -
As the story bloats to two hours by mistaking itself for an epic, The Outsider falls into a pit of boredom somewhere between the white savior complex of Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai” and the much slicker kills by Alain Delon in “Le Samourai.”
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A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.