First Abel Ferrara, then Werner Herzog — next comes a version of the 1992 cult movie Bad Lieutenant by Japan’s most prolific provocateur.
Shun Oguri plays the titular degenerate cop, a corrupt gambler in Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Force.
He is pulled into a tangled case when an enigmatic FBI agent (Lily James) arrives to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s daughter (WWE star Liv Morgan), with a deviant killer of the yakuza underworld shadowing their moves.
Scribe Daisuke Tengan (Audition) wrote the script, and Jeremy Thomas produced.
The film wrapped last year, and Neon has it set for a September release stateside.
Announcing the project, Miike promised, a fastball straight down the middle of the strike zone.
He previously competed in Venice Fest with the Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) and the samurai remake 13 Assassins (2010).
