‘The Outsider’ Review: That Netflix Movie Where Jared Leto Joins the Yakuza Is Even Worse than it Sounds

You also don’t need critics to tell you that “The Outsider,” a tragically real crime drama in which Jared Leto plays a silent but deadly enforcer for the Yakuza in post-war Japan, is deeply horrendous, because when was the last time you saw a good Yakuza movie starring Jared Leto?Of course, “The Outsider” didn’t have to be yet another story about a white dude who manages to insinuate himself into a historically inaccessible Japanese subculture just to have sex with the most coveted native woman around and then ruin everyone’s life in the noble pursuit of something no one asked him to do in the first place.

You’d like to think that Hollywood would eventually learn from the mistakes (or even the title) of “The Last Samurai,” and perhaps one day it will.

But today is not that day.

Today is just the day that

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