Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
Hiro, an aspiring singer, leaves Japan for New York to pursue his dream and free himself of what he sees as Japan's repressed, class-conscious society. When he discovers a dead body at the SRO hotel where he's staying, his world is turned upside down turning the film into a madcap romp through downtown Manhattan.