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* FishOutOfWater: A large portion of the movie is simply watching Nick flail and fail as he tries to survive in Tokyo.
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* FishOutOfWater: A large portion of the movie is simply watching Nick flail and fail as he tries to survive in Tokyo.Japan.
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* CouldSayItBut: [[spoiler:After Charlie gets killed, Masahiro hands Nick Charlie's personal effects, and tells him how the Japanese have a tradition of taking a single object from the deceased to remember them. The personal effects in question includes Charlie's confiscated firearm, and Nick is sorely in need of one. [[LetsGetDangerous Nick gets the hint]].]]
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* IfYouDieICallYourStuff[=/=]CouldSayItBut: [[spoiler:After Charlie gets killed, Masahiro hands Nick Charlie's personal effects, and tells him how the Japanese have a tradition of taking a single object from the deceased to remember them. The personal effects in question includes Charlie's confiscated firearm, and Nick is sorely in need of one. [[LetsGetDangerous Nick gets the hint]].]]
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* HelplessWindowDeath: Sato and company separate Nick and Charlie and attack the latter while the former can only helplessly look on from behind a security gate.
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Desperate not to give further fuel to IA, (and maybe to just do something right) Nick insists on staying in Japan to assist the Japanese police catch Sato. (Not that most of the local cops want anything to do with the pair of them). Older detective Masahiro Masamoto becomes their guide as they get drawn deeper and deeper into the Yakuza's underworld, an underworld which is on the brink of a major confrontation...
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Desperate not to give further fuel to IA, (and maybe to just do something right) Nick insists on staying in Japan to assist the Japanese police catch Sato. (Not that most of the local cops want anything to do with the pair of them). Older detective Masahiro Masamoto Matsumoto becomes their guide as they get drawn deeper and deeper into the Yakuza's underworld, an underworld which is on the brink of a major confrontation...
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* {{Yubitsume}}: The villain does it, remarkably, as his former boss won't agree to the peace deal otherwise. [[spoiler:It also has some plot relevance, as the fresh injury bothers Sato in his last fight with Nick.]]
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* {{Yubitsume}}: The villain does it, remarkably, as Sugai, his very traditional former boss boss, won't agree to the a peace deal otherwise. [[spoiler:It also has some plot relevance, as the fresh injury bothers Sato in his last fight with Nick.Nick, and [[AttackTheInjury aggravating the injury]] is what allows Nick to turn the fight in his favor.]]
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* {{Yubitsume}}: The villain does it, remarkably. [[spoiler:It also has some plot relevance, as the fresh injury bothers Sato in his last fight with Nick.]]
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* {{Yubitsume}}: The villain does it, remarkably.remarkably, as his former boss won't agree to the peace deal otherwise. [[spoiler:It also has some plot relevance, as the fresh injury bothers Sato in his last fight with Nick.]]
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When handing Sato over to the fake cops, Nick is slightly flummoxed that the paperwork the fake cops present is only in Japanese, a little unusual for an international prisoner trade. However the much bigger clue is that Sato seems strangely confident about the whole thing, even making a finger gun at Nick. Then about thirty second later Nick and Charlie walk to the other end end of the plane and the actual cops are standing there and start to introduce themselves and Nick immediately realizes what just happened.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When handing Sato over to the fake cops, Nick is looks slightly flummoxed that the paperwork the fake cops present is only in Japanese, a little unusual and one can [[FacialDialogue basically see the moment his face changes from that initial confusion to deciding to just be done with the whole thing and sign the paper]]. (And later it will be revealed that the form is not the one for an international a prisoner trade. exchange at all, it was just brought because it looked official and would provoke that exact reaction from the American cops.) However the much bigger clue that something is amiss is that Sato seems strangely nonchalant and confident about the whole thing, even making a finger gun at Nick. Nick as the "cops" prepare to take him away. Then about thirty second later Nick and Charlie walk to the other end end of the plane and the actual cops are standing there and start to introduce themselves and Nick almost immediately realizes what just happened.that the first group of cops were fakes and they were tricked.
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->''[[{{Tagline}} "An American Cop in Japan. Their country. Their laws. Their game. His rules."]]''
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When handing Sato over to the fake cops, Nick is slightly flummoxed that the paperwork the fake cops present is only in Japanese, a little unusual for an international prisoner trade. However the much bigger clue is that Sato seems strangely confident about the whole thing, even making a finger gun at Nick. Then about thirty second later Nick and Charlie walk to the other end end of the plane and the actual cops are standing there and start to introduce themselves and Nick immediately realizes what just happened.
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* TrickedIntoSigning: Sato's men, disguised as detectives, present Nick a release form in Japanese, which he signs unwittingly.
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* TrickedIntoSigning: Sato's men, disguised as detectives, present Nick a release an official looking form in Japanese, claiming it's a document for the Americans to release Sato into the custody of Japanese police. Nick signs away and turns Sato over, only to learn a minute or two later that those guys were actually gangsters impersonating police. A little later in the movie Nick is told the form he signed was actually an application for insurance, and Sato's men brought it because they needed something that would appear at a glance to be some kind of official paperwork, which the American cops would be expecting, and knew that there was no way Nick would know what he signs unwittingly.was signing.
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T.I.S.
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* TrickedIntoSigning: Sato's men, disguised as detectives, present Nick a release form in Japanese, which he signs unwittingly.
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* NotSoDifferent: [[TheHero Nick]] and [[BigBad Sato]] both get into trouble with their superiors for not following the rules, both are fond of bikes, both have [[AxCrazy moments of instability]].
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* DangerouslyGarishEnvironment: This film makes neon-lit Osaka look like an especially dangerous and threatening environment for StrangeCopInAStrangeLand NYPD detectives Nick and Charlie.
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* RacialFaceBlindness: After Sato's cronies trick Nick and Charlie into releasing Sato to them, the American cops are made to look at mugshots to identify the men working with Sato. Predictably Nick has a lot of trouble telling different Asian men apart.
-->'''Nick''': Unbelievable, identical strangers.
-->'''Nick''': Unbelievable, identical strangers.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Though the movie takes place in Osaka, Japan's second city, none of the Japanese characters speak in the Osaka dialect. Rather, they all speak the standardized dialect, which is based on the Tokyo accent. Persons from Osaka would normally speak standard Japanese to somebody from another region, but it would be almost unheard of, in particular in the underworld, amongst people from Osaka.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Though the movie takes place in Osaka, Japan's second city, none of the Japanese characters speak in the Osaka dialect. Rather, they all speak the standardized dialect, which is based on the Tokyo accent. Persons from Osaka would normally speak standard Japanese to somebody from another region, but it would be almost unheard of, in particular in the underworld, amongst people from Osaka.
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The trope was renamed Racial Face Blindness in TRS. Please don't re-add without context for their races.
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* IdenticalLookingAsians: When trying to identify the fake cops:
-->'''Nick''': Unbelievable, identical strangers.
-->'''Nick''': Unbelievable, identical strangers.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Though the movie takes place in Osaka, Japan's second city, none of the Japanese characters speak in the Osaka dialect. Rather, they all speak the standardized dialect, which is based on the Tokyo accent. Persons from Osaka would normally speak standard Japanese to somebody from another region, but it would be almost unheard of, in particular in the underworld, amongst people from Osaka.
* HollywoodLaw: Nick Conklin was told that he was a laughing stock for having signed over his prisoner to the Yakuza on insurance forms. Had the events been real, it would have paled in comparison to the lapse of Japan's police in not securing the plane at the airport before the Mob could board. Conklin could have also sued in International Court and would have been under no obligation to track down the suspect having successfully extradited him.
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* {{Recut}}: There are rumors of a director's cut that adds on about half an hour to the movie.
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* {{Recut}}: There are rumors of a director's ReCut: Scott's original cut that adds on about half an hour to the movie.was two hours and forty minutes long.
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: Used for a ChekhovsGun. Nick and Charlie have to hand over their firearms to the Japanese police before they will let them work the case. [[spoiler:After Charlie is murdered, his personal effects are handed over to Nick, who gives Charlie's badge to Sato...and keeps Charlie's pistol for himself.]]
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AndyGarcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda. Music/RyuichiSakamoto composed the soundtrack.
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AndyGarcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda. Music/RyuichiSakamoto Music/HansZimmer composed most of the soundtrack.soundtrack, with "Laserman" being the work of Music/RyuichiSakamoto.
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AndyGarcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda.
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AndyGarcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda. Music/RyuichiSakamoto composed the soundtrack.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Sato's men plot to rescue him from Nick and Charlie as soon as they land in Osaka by pretending to be detectives carrying an arrest warrant for Sato, counting on the foreigners to not know Japanese and thus not notice that what they're brandishing is a housing contract. It works.
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Not to be confused with Peter Weir's ''Film/TheLastWave'', which was released in America as ''Black Rain''. Or the Masuji Ibuse novel of the same name. Or the various [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki documentaries about the end of WWII]] with similar titles.
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Not to be confused with Peter Weir's ''Film/TheLastWave'', which was released in America as ''Black Rain''. Or the Masuji Ibuse novel of the same name.name ([[TheFilmOfTheBook later filmed by Shohei Imamura]], also released in 1989). Or the various [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki documentaries about the end of WWII]] with similar titles.
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* NeonCity: Osaka is full of neon lights; even the trucks driving around the city are covered in them. This makes Osaka look menacing and alien to the two NYPD detectives while they are in the city.
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda.
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''Black Rain'' is a 1989 American action-thriller film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Andy Garcia, Creator/AndyGarcia, Ken Takakura, Creator/KateCapshaw and Yusaku Matsuda.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Nick's style of fighting. Well, that and a generous helping of [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty Fighting Dirty]].
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Nick's style of fighting. Well, that and a generous helping of [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty [[CombatPragmatist Fighting Dirty]].
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Detective Nick Conklin didn't need any more complications in his life. His ex-wife, the alimony payments, the rest of his bills, his kids, the occasional motorcycle street race and the InternalAffairs department investigating him for corruption were more than enough to keep him busy. But things ''really'' got interesting one day when he was eating lunch with his partner Charlie, and they happen to look over and see a known Mafia capo eating lunch and doing business with some Japanese gentlemen. Then a second group of Japanese men come into the restaurant, kill that first group, then flee. Nick and Charlie go after them, and after a tough chase that nearly costs Nick his life, they manage to bring the leader in.
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Detective Nick Conklin didn't need any more complications in his life. His ex-wife, the alimony payments, the rest of his bills, his kids, the occasional motorcycle street race and the InternalAffairs department investigating him for corruption were more than enough to keep him busy. But things ''really'' got interesting one day when he was eating lunch with his partner Charlie, Charlie Vincent, and they happen to look over and see a known Mafia capo eating lunch and doing business with some Japanese gentlemen. Then a second group of Japanese men come into the restaurant, kill that first group, then flee. Nick and Charlie go after them, and after a tough chase that nearly costs Nick his life, they manage to bring the leader in.
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* BigBad: Sato, TheUnfettered gangster looking to claim control of a large section of the Japanese underworld.
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* BigBad: Koji Sato, TheUnfettered gangster looking to claim control of a large section of the Japanese underworld.
