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WHO’S IN IT?

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club), Tadanobu Asano (Battleship), Rory Cochrane (Argo), Shiori Kutsuna (Petal Dance), Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild), Nao Ōmori (The Go Master), Min Tanaka (Blade of the Immortal), Kippei Shiina (Sada)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Martin Zandvliet (Land of Mine), director; Andrew Baldwin (Bastille Day), writer; Ken Kao (Hostiles), Art Linson (Fight Club) and John Linson (Lords of Dogtown), producers; Camilla Hjelm (Little Soldier), cinematographer; Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (A Royal Affair), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In post-WW2 Japan, Nick Lowell (Leto), a formerly imprisoned American soldier who was freed by his Yakuza cellmate, repays his debt of gratitude to the lucrative  and violent criminal underworld as he becomes part of the feared Yakuza…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Fresh from his divisive turn as The Joker in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto headlines this chilling and violent crime drama – let’s just hope he didn’t mail anyone any dead rats this time.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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