![]() ![]() One thing this movie does right is the atmosphere. Also, Yo’s handler Koh, who is tasked to keep an eye on Yo and make sure that assassin doesn’t stray from their organization’s code and what not, is becoming increasingly unhappy that Yo is not only letting a witness live, he is shacking up with her to boot. By killing the son of the Yakuza boss, our hero has become an unwitting pawn in a war between two feuding Yakuza families, but come on, Yo is the kind of guy who looks hot and dangerous while demolishing his enemies in only a jockstrap. Hence, the two embark on an affair even as Yo’s enemies close in around them. Even though she has just seen him gun down a man, or maybe it’s because of it because some women like their men crazy and violent, she develops a fascination with him that is reciprocated. Our heroine, Emu O’Hara, stumbles upon Yo murdering the son of a Yakuza boss in San Francisco, while celebrating her birthday by painting by the lake. ![]() This quirk is shown once in this movie, and barely registers for the rest of it. In some ways, this movie is pretty much its own thing with barely any connection with the manga, because the protagonist, Yo Hinomura, is an assassin known as Freeman, whose distinctive quirk is that he will shed a tear for his victim before he assassinates that sod. Maybe the folks behind this movie want it to sound more American, who knows. The whole thing is off right from the start, when Julie Condra’s voice is dubbed over by Deborah Kara Unger, while Ron Perlman growls and snarls over Tchéky Karyo’s lines. This is one of those instances where the source material has already set the bar low, so even a resulting movie like this one-badly acted, weird, so awful it’s beautiful-would seem like a masterpiece in comparison. Main cast: Mark Dacascos (Yo Hinomura), Julie Condra (Emu O’Hara), Tchéky Karyo (Detective Netah), Byron Mann (Koh), Masaya Kato (Ryuji Hanada), Yoko Shimada (Kimie Hanada), Rae Dawn Chong (Detective Forge), and Mako (Shido Shimazaki)Ĭrying Freeman is one of the better movie adaptations of a Japanese manga, but that’s because the manga itself is badly-drawn, poorly-plotted soft porn. ![]()
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