Crying Freeman - 1995

I like this film, maybe because it made the usual action-movie where everybody is out to kill everybody else into something tender... I like the two protagonists and the story. It's narrated by Emu O'Hara (Julie Condra) and how life changed for her when she saw a man (Mark Dacascos) killing other two men. He saw her too, but instead of killing her as a dangerous witness, he took his hand and told her "my name.. is Yo" and I like him and his voice and the way he says such a simple phrase. We learn that her parents died twenty years ago because she left the door open and criminals came in to kill them. For twenty years she has felf alone and guilty. Now she's made a portrait of Yo "I paint what I'm afraid to wish for", and refuses police protection. He goes to her, burns the portrait, but when she sees him she's not afraid. She's like fascinated by him and by the fact that he might kill her  "he's the Freeman, and now he will free me". In a way she wanted to die, to escape her past , her guilt and her life. He doesn't kill her, he sleeps with her instead, then he protects her and brings her to a hospital. "If you ever want to find me, remember the name Hinomura". Three days later she wakes up in a hospital room guarded by cops Forge (Rae Dawn Chong) and Netah (Tcheky Karyo). She escapes and flyes to Japan to meet him. She runs to hug him, and he tells her his story of how he was made a killer. That's why he always has a tear in his eyes after killing somebody. They said he had the spirit of a Dragon in him , and it must be true  because he never hides and yet nobody ever hits him.. :-p
He works for a Chinese 'family' but they feel he has betrayed them for her. He fights the yakuza, and now the  person that will kill him will become the new yakuza leader. A woman planned for her husband to take that role, and she doesn't give up even after he's killed. She sleeps with Netah and after Forge was killed he helps her find him to kill him. Yo uses a long bow to protect Emu: cool. When Netah shoots him, Emu takes the gun and protects him by shooting Netah. Yo defeats them all, but lets the woman live to tell everybody that Freeman Yo the potter and Emu O'Hara are dead. She gives him her word, and has to kill Netah when he won't give up and tries to shoot Yo in the back. She had given her word of honor..
Yo and Emu go away together knowing that they'll hunt them, and not caring. For the first time in a long time she's not alone anymore.