The Meandering Path of Redemption in Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo Takashi Miike's latest foray into international crime thrillers, Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, has left fans and critics perplexed.
This film marks a departure from the director's usual operatic violence and perversion, instead offering a meandering narrative that aspires to be a hardboiled crime thriller but falls flat.
The original 1992 film by Abel Ferrara set the tone for a gritty portrayal of moral decay, while Werner Herzog's 2009 follow up, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, elevated that tone with Nicolas Cage's performance.