A Japanese-American production, the film stars Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Shioli Kutsuna, and Emile Hirsch.
In 1954, nine years after the Pacific War, ex-United States Marine Corps Captain Nick Lowell is the only non-Japanese inmate in an Osaka prison.
Once Nick was out of the prison gates, he was brought to the Shiromatsu's headquarters and was offered a job, a negotiation deal with Anthony Panetti, an American businessman with a deep hatred for the Japanese.
He further entrusts Nick with driving his drunk younger sister Miyu home after he catches her partying at the Shiromatsu club.
Kiyoshi then sends Nick alone for a mission to handle a black market weapons deal at a harbor with a traitorous soldier.
However, when Nick arrived at the dock, all he found was a dead person on the floor and subsequently, he is ambushed by four Seizu members, intending to steal the deal for themselves.
Telling Nick that he is now responsible for keeping Miyu safe, Kiyoshi gives him a daishō, a pair of swords signifying honor.
Sensing that something was wrong as the patriarch was taking too long, Nick went to the fitting room to check on the boss only to find him being strangled by someone.
Undeterred, Nick travels to the Seizu clan dōjō with Kiyoshi's sword and demands an opportunity to kill Orochi.
On November 16, 2016, Netflix entered negotiations with Bloom and AFM to acquire exclusive global rights to the film.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Starring a disengaged Jared Leto and stuffed with gangster cliches, The Outsider never distinguishes itself enough to gain admittance into the inner circle of good yakuza pictures.
He wrote that "“Jared Leto in a yakuza drama” isn’t the most palatable of pitches, but that somehow turns out to not be the movie's biggest problem.
"[7] Andrew Barker of Variety magazine called it "Dull, flavorless, and fundamentally incurious, “The Outsider” is a clueless misfire, the cinematic equivalent of a study-abroad student showing off the kanji forearm tattoo whose meaning he never bothered to learn.