47 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestA picaresque suspense story in which the ace of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, who has a strong sense of justice, uses his strong arms to defeat criminals who cannot be brought to justice, and uses evil to defeat evil. This work is set several years later in the same world as the manga " Kurokochi " by the same author, and characters such as Seike reappear.
Direction
Miike squeezing his signature transgression into broadcast constraints
Acting
Toma Ikuta's physicality sells every skull-cracking contradiction
Writing
Picaresque structure lets each case hit different moral notes
Toma Ikuta
Daiba Jin
Osamu Mukai
Hirayasu Saimon
Tao Tsuchiya
Tanabata Yuka
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Urabe Takanori
Kavka Shishido
Kaku Sakura
Renn Kiriyama
Seike Shingo
Riko Narumi
Takada Miwako
Kenta Hamano
Botan Noriyuki
Ema Fujisawa
Hirayasu Ayako
Ken Matsudaira
Kumota Taizo
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Anamizu Seigen
Shin Takuma
Amo Dai
Katsunori Takahashi
Nagiri Yukito
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's 'keiji dorama' tradition meets Miike's 'Dead or Alive' nihilism, creating a cop show that hates cops. The genre collision feels almost transgressive for primetime.
Takashi Miike reportedly fought network censors over Jin's brutality levels, arguing that sanitizing the violence would betray the character's fascist-adjacent appeal. He mostly won.
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