‘The Outsider’ Trailer: Jared Leto Joins The Yakuza In New Netflix Thriller
Netflix has released a trailer forThe Outsider, a bloody noir starringJared Letoas a former American POW set in post-World War II Japan.
Leto gets toLast Samuraiit up as an American soldier who becomes indebted to the Japanese yakuza, a catch-all for the country’s organized crime, and is forced to navigate Japan’s seedy criminal underworld to repay his debts.
The Outsider Trailer
If you like watching Jared Leto beat people up in Asian-inspired locales, you’re in luck. The last time we saw Leto in a feature film, he was donning a kimono and gutting android women like fish inBlade Runner 2049. Now, he sheds the kimono for a snappy suit and goes to war-torn Japan.
Leto’s hollow cheekbones and blank eyes don’t communicate much — except that he’s a ruthless killer who descends further into madness as he gets caught in the yakuza’s bloody web. There’s really not much to say about this trailer: it’s moody, it’s brutal, and it doubles down on Netflix’s current fixation with Japan — whether it’s through cyberpunk science-fiction (Altered Carbon), anime adaptations (Death Note), or anime itself.
The Outsiderhas long been in the works. A script was written in 2011 and bounced around to different studios, with high profile names likeMichael FassbenderandTom Hardyattached. But Netflix saved it from development hell when it acquired worldwide distribution rights in 2016.
You can see the stylish poster forThe Outsiderbelow.
Danish filmmakerMartin Zandvliet, best known for the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language filmLand of Mine,makes is English language debut with the film. The script was co-written byAndrew Baldwin(Bastille Day) andJohn Linson(producer ofLords of Dogtown).
The cast is rounded out byTadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Shioli Kutsuna, Emile Hirsch, Raymond Nicholson, Rory Cochrane, Nao Omori,andMin Tanaka.
Here is the official synopsis forThe Outsider:
Set in post-WWII Japan, an imprisoned American soldier (Leto) is released with the help of his Yakuza cellmate. Now free, he sets out to earn their respect and repay his debt while navigating the dangerous criminal underworld.
