Crying Freeman
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is…
- Director:Christophe Gans
- Genre:Action / Crime / Thriller
- Runtime:97 minutes
Cast
Mark Dacascos : Yo Hinomura / Freeman
Julie Condra : Emu O’Hara
Rae Dawn Chong : Det. Forge
Byron Mann : Koh
Masaya Katô : Ryuji Hanada
One morning, while painting the landscape on a hill in San Francisco, California, a young woman named Emu O’Hara (Julie Condra) witnesses the murder of a Japanese Yakuza member. She notices that while the assassin stands emotionless in front of her, his eyes begin to shed tears. The assassin introduces himself to Emu as “Yo” (Mark Dacascos).
Days later, after Emu returns to her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Hakushin Society led by Shido Shimazaki (Mako) make their appearance at the local police precinct, announcing a war between his clan and the “Sons of the Dragons” – a Chinese Triad that ordered the assassination of Shimazaki’s son in San Francisco. Interpol detective Netah (Tchéky Karyo) explains to the police that the Sons of the Dragons are descendants of 108 Buddhist monks who rebelled against the Manchu reign in China centuries ago, and that they have their bringer of death known in the underworld as the “Freeman.” Shimazaki then tells everyone that Emu is the Freeman’s next target, as she was the only witness to his son’s assassination, and the assassin’s code is that a person who is given Freeman’s name becomes his next kill. However, shortly after their meeting is adjourned, Shimazaki and his bodyguards are ambushed outside the precinct by a masked Freeman and his assistant Koh (Byron Mann) (sniping from the top of a nearby building). After dispatching the bodyguards and disabling the nearby police officers, Freeman successfully kills Shimazaki before running off. During his escape, he passes by Emu, who recognizes his eyes through his mask. As Freeman and Koh flee the scene, Emu utters Yo’s name to the surprise of Detective Forge (Rae Dawn Chong), who is assigned to protect her.
Later that night, Emu is interrogated by Netah and Forge over Freeman’s identity. Due to a lack of evidence, she is shortly released and escorted back to her mansion. As Netah scouts the mansion’s perimeters, he discovers that Forge is knocked unconscious and he encounters Ryuji Hanada (Masaya Kato) and wife Kimie Hanada (Yoko Shimada), who are out to claim the Freeman’s head and take over the Hakushin Society. Inside the mansion, Emu discovers that Yo is in her room and begins to accept her fate. Yo, however, decides not to kill her and instead, makes love with her. Minutes later, Hanada’s men enter the mansion, prompting Yo to immediately kill them before Ryuji confronts him. Koh throws a knife at Ryuji’s back and a gun towards Yo. As Yo guns Ryuji down, Ryuji fires his machine pistol out of control, severely wounding Emu. Despite his orders, Yo cannot bring himself to kill Emu; instead, he has Koh drive them to the nearest hospital. En route, Yo tells Emu his last name being Hinomura, and to find him in Hokkaid?, Japan. It is later on revealed that Ryuji survived the gunfight by wearing a bulletproof vest.
With the help of members of the Sons of the Dragons (and at the cost of Detective Forge’s life), Emu escapes police security at the hospital and flies to Japan to reunite with Yo. Yo tells Emu about his past before becoming the Freeman. He was a renowned pottery artist who had an exhibition in New York. During the exhibit, someone was murdered by two unknown assailants. He realized that the murder victim placed a roll of film inside one of his vases several seconds prior to his death. Yo developed the photos in his hotel bathroom, revealing the torture and execution of a man wearing dragon tattoos similar to what he would eventually wear. Before leaving his hotel, he was drugged and abducted by the Sons of the Dragons, who implanted subliminal messages into his mind using acupuncture techniques. During his first mission, where he killed Mafia boss Antonio Rossi, he began to shed tears; hence his name Crying Freeman. Read more
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