The Outsider stars the Oscar-winner as a captive American soldier in the final days of WWII, set free from prison with the aid of his yakuza cellmate.
Netflix’s latest film has faced immediate backlash for casting Jared Leto as a yakuza member.
AROUND US”; indeed, it’s impressive how far the Netflix film will go to warp the rules of the yakuza, rather than simply centre a yakuza film around an Asian or Asian-American lead.
The Outsider also stars Emile Hirsch, Raymond Nicholson, Tadanobu Asano, Rory Cochrane, and Shiori Kutsuna.