

When you see the plates of the cars, the Yakuza use very specific plates and very specific cars. And then we studied the organization, what's the relationship between people and what they do and what they don't do, what they wear and what they don't wear. For example, in Tokyo it's a republic, so it's a different family. We were very serious about studying the Yakuza organization. What research did you do for depicting the Yakuza? And if someone could actually try to coerce an organization like that, then it would be very profitable, but it's not an easy thing to do, but that's also what the movie kind of talks about. He has to be the only upstanding person in the film outside of Ani, who is the true hero of the film. He's someone that made a lot of mistakes and regrets every single one of them. I present someone that is somewhat villainous, somewhat responsible for something bad and is a kingpin of a Japanese gangster organization, but he turned out to be a family man.

That's the perfect example of how I want to deal with that. I think one of the things that you would see in the film is in the character of Kijima, for example, who is portrayed as the kingpin and the Yakuza boss, and ends up being the only upstanding man in this whole story. I was like, "Man, you look like Ripley, you look like a young Ripley." It happened as we were shooting it.Ībsolutely. And then when we started to shoot her in the jacket with the short hair, we were like, "Hold on, wait, wait a second." Mary and I, we started to talk about it. When we started to shoot, she had long hair in the film. Originally, it wasn't that jacket, and then it became that jacket. Was the jacket, though, an intentional nod to " Alien"? So now you see it, you're kind of like, well, it's not the same thing. It's going to be like that." But they haven't seen it. So it's like, "I haven't seen the movie, but you know what else is like this? 'D.O.A.' or 'Crank.' It's going to be like this. Oh, she has 24 hours to live and she'd been poisoned. No, no, it's pretty good, but I think it's a very different kind of movie. I hadn't seen it until I heard it referenced to " Kate.
