Red Sun Rising

In contrast to most other low-budget American-made martial arts thrillers, RED SUN RISING boasts above-average fight choreography and a strong cast of familiar players in its story of a Japanese cop teaming with a female Los Angeles counterpart to stop a Japanese mobster from fomenting gang war.

Kyoto policeman Thomas Hoshino (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) arrives in Los Angeles seeking to extradite mobster Yamata (Soon-Teck Oh), who escapes police custody before the transfer can be made. Hoshino teams with police detective Karen Ryder (Terry Farrell) to try and track down Yamata before he can succeed in his plan to ignite a gang war between the Chicano Malitos and ...