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When the police stopped that car and saw blood on the ground, why did...

posted 11 years ago by Zombie55
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... they not act upon it, even subtly perhaps?

Seriously, remember that scene when the police stopped the car with the gang who had the body of the dead man in their trunk, and they were explaining how they were government officials and whatnot, when that cop saw drops of blood on the ground right where the car was, why did he and the other officers not act on it?

Like OK, maybe telling them that directly would've made them pull out their guns and shoot them, but if they were acting subtly on it, like getting their registration number and quietly alerting other officers of it somehow - I mean - that was the right thing to do, yes?

Or did that cop and other cops not notice the drops of blood on the ground next to the car?

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[–] chicago85 11 years ago

It had diplomatic plates and the man who stopped the car may have been reluctant to take action. I have read that the Japanese operate by concensus. They have committees make decisions to spread around blow back by a bad decision. "The nail that stick up gets hammed down." One of the men told him they were on their way to a government crisis. Still, I would have noted the time, license plate and descriptions of the men in a field report of my shift.

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[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

Yes, they made a big deal to the cops about it being a vehicle under diplomatic status. Having said that, in this film the police are shown to be pretty corrupt and operating to a fairly "hands off" policy, as far as the Yakuza are concerned.🐭

[–] zbyszanna 9 years ago

The policeman first saw the plates and commented on it and then saw the blood and wanted them to pop up the trunk, so his resignation from following up on the blood cannot be explain with them being diplomats. The policeman let them go after the diplomat spoke to him in Japanese. This scene is a mystery to me.

[–] FlorianLaur 8 years ago

Maybe he was confused that the Japanese guy spoke to him in English, while the kokojin spoke to him in fluent Japanese. He certainly would have expected the opposite. I always assume he felt there's something a-miss, but just like the cop outside the police station never said anything about the cigarette butts, I think this guy also thought there's something fishy and he might just be better off, leaving it alone. Given that gangsters USUALLY kill other gangsters, maybe he thought that whatever happened here was happening in this "other world" and doesn't have to concern him.