Currently the last episode in the unfinished trilogy the 2007 installment decided to shed any remaining aspirations of the 2004 epic and worked hard to gain the "thriller" tagline instead, with distinct marketing to the West. As such, director Shinji Aramaki was joined with action-film producer John Woo, and the "complicated" storyline of the earlier effort was replaced with more easily understood plot, one that took aim at rampant consumerism of electronics.