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So, can someone explain this movie to me?


Here's how I took the storyline: Yakuza and Triads trying to work together... an upstart gangster who has both ancestry is just kind of doing his own thing and messing up deals for everyone. He also has that effeminate brother whose college he paid for.
Meanwhile, a cop needs to pay for his daughter's surgery and is intent on taking down Takeuchi. The cop's partner kills the brother and the cop is making all these drug busts that's pissing Takeuchi off. So he kills the cop's wife and daughter and there's a big showdown that gets pretty awesome and nuts.

1. Who was the stripper and the guy who had her go after the boss (who ended up killing her in a kiddie pool full of poo?
2. How did the cop pay for his daughter's surgery? The synopsis I had had something about a loan from the Japanese boss, but when did that happen exactly?
3. Was there a third brother? Was trying to figure out who the guy who stole 30,000 so his mom could go back to China was.



I think that's it. My issue seems to be that my Netflix synopsis didn't make sense. It referred to Riki Takeuchi as the "leader of the Chinese mafia" which wasn't true. Also, the movie didn't really explain the characters or their relationships with each other... which is fine, but there was a minimal amount done to get me to care about them, so my mind kept wandering while watching this one. Either way, it was a good enough movie. Just not super easy to follow.



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