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...Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) has been assigned to guard the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. against a death threat by Hong Kong triads. The ambassador is murdered by an assailant named Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), whom Lee tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen...
...year before he was discharged, but in March 1949 he was back again as a correspondent for TIME & LIFE. His Five Gentlemen of Japan are real people: Emperor Hirohito; Fumio Shimizu, a wartime vice admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more than sociological types-or slick stereotypes. Each of them has his own real problems; the Emperor is as much shackled by the deadweight of traditional reverence as Farmer Sanada by the limitations inherent in a six-acre farm...
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