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Twisted Justice

2016 · 135 min

A slow, cynical plunge into police corruption that feels both grim and darkly comic, demanding attention as it sprawls across decades.

Directed by
Kazuya Shiraishi
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Starring
Go Ayano, YOUNG DAIS, Yukio Ueno
Overview
Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy with the other side of the law when his senior colleague Murai teaches him the ropes and ruts of the police business. Soon, he swaggers and rants through the streets of Sapporo a lean, mean, sex‐crazy bully, indistinguishable from a yakuza.

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Directed by
Kazuya Shiraishi
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Starring
Go Ayano, YOUNG DAIS, Yukio Ueno
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • power
  • crime
  • morality
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour5
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime, drama
Directed by
Kazuya Shiraishi
Written by
Junya Ikegami
Starring
Go Ayano, YOUNG DAIS, Yukio Ueno, Haruna Yabuki, Kumi Takiuchi, Ryuzo Tanaka, Minosuke, Tomoya Nakamura
Music
Goro Yasukawa
Cinematography
Takahiro Imai
Runtime
135 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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