Two New York cops Nick Conklin (Michael Douglas) and Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) get involved in a gang war btw members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

East River (btw Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge) Manhattan.