洛杉矶,日本诸商社正与美国方面谈判,以求引进最新的电子技术,日方为获得成功,监控系统和读唇术无所不用……当夜,在这座日本商社大楼中发生了一起命案,一名白种女子死在会议室中。警探韦伯(韦斯利•斯奈普斯 Wesley Snipes 饰)受命调查此案,上峰派处于停职状态的约翰•康诺(肖恩•康纳利 Sean Connery 饰)协助韦伯,只因康诺曾经多年在日本工作,了解和日本人打交道的方式。韦伯和康诺调查了死者的家和日本方面送来的事发现场录像,初步锁定嫌疑人是死者的日籍情人艾迪(凯里-川田博之 饰),艾迪的父亲曾对康诺有救命之恩,在警探汤姆(哈威•凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰)和韦伯着力追踪艾迪并导致其车祸时,康诺通过还原现场录像发现了此案的幕后隐情……At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up John Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on.