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.
Ryuki has lived his entire life in a small fishing village and dreams of leaving to become an actor in Tokyo. But every night the ferries come and go while he merely sits and watches, until a chance meeting with a mainland journalist and her friend allows Ryuki to hope and, possibly, to leave.