Yet another international coproduction featuring a Japanese leading man, NEW YORK COP doesn't augur well for the future of Yankee-Rising Sun artistic cooperation. Do American sound as comical in Japanese as Nakamura does mangling English? This is not a racist observation; if an actor has
to spit out salty urban street talk, he must do so intelligibly. After all, the F-word is the Haiku of American cop movies.
Fresh on the Manhattan beat, rookie cop Toshi (Toru Nakamura) frets about fitting into the force's plans for him to go undercover in order to infiltrate Alphabet City gangs. Ridiculed by a contact for overdressing, Toshi gets swept into the crime maelstrom ...
Released:
1995
Rated:
R
Length:
88 mins