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Was Han really skimming from the Yakuza?


I didnt pay full attention. Was Han really stealing from his partner, or was he just taking the rap for someone else.

If he was stealing, why? Just for the fun of it?

Isnt he a multi-multi-millionaire after the events of the prequels?



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Once Uncle Kamata found out Han was holding cash back from DK he had to insist he do something about it. Perhaps DK already knew about the skimming since he seemed so on top of his book-keeping, but because he needed Han he’d ignored it. Although Han explained to him how business worked, when it became public knowledge DK needed to react to save face.
Han knew how precarious the situation was, hence the emergency cash he left with Twinkie, which Sean was able to utilise.

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Having watched Fast7 I’m beginning to rethink all this. It can now look like Han was taking risks to bring some kind of disaster upon himself. Not getting over the loss of Gisele may explain his casual attitude to the risks he was taking. Perhaps seeing Sean arrive on the scene provided a momentary interest for him. He helped Sean integrate into his new surroundings, which also helped provoke things with DK. There’s the bit where Sean does ask him why he’s in Tokyo – he says something about escaping over a border to sanctuary. Perhaps there was indeed more to it than just that.
Maybe it doesn’t matter but I love the way this early offshoot of the series added such a great twist to the overall storyline.

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Isnt he a multi-multi-millionaire after the events of the prequels?


I think he was never intended to be in other movies when they made this one, considering that they killed him off in Tokyo. The way they wrote him here made him seem like a generic drifter who works with the Yakuza, not this guy with lots of other crazy adventures, who now spends all his time hanging out with high school kids.

This is the danger in making prequel movies, especially in franchise like this that makes each new movie more and more ridiculous. They ended up with a character that went from robbing banks and jumping cars between Abu Dhabi skyscrapers to a guy who chills in parking garages and races cars against high school kids.

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