Before there was\u00a0Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Moms, there was\u00a0Bad Lieutenant. Surprisingly, since its 1992 debut, Abel Ferrara\u2019s unflinching crime drama has grown into a loose trilogy, and it\u2019s now an international concern. Joining the ranks of Ferrara and Werner Herzog, legendary Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has taken charge of the Bad Lieutenant series and sent it to Japan. Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, the third installment in a loose series connected by the theme of insane police officers, finds the problems of policing abroad, and the first teaser trailer promises more mayhem from the supposedly good guys with a gun. The trailer for the film, which stars Shun Oguri (Godzilla Vs. Kong), Lily James (Pam & Tommy), and Liv Morgan (WWE Superstar), lives up to its title, teasing the tools of internal and external destruction. Here\u2019s the official synopsis:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA disgraced Tokyo detective spirals into a world of corruption, addiction, and violence as he becomes entangled in a twisted investigation involving a vengeful ex-yakuza, an enigmatic FBI agent, and a missing daughter of a powerful American family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abel Ferrara directed the first installment<\/a>, led by Harvey Keitel, who spirals down the New York City gutter in a toxic stew of Catholic guilt, drug addiction, and old-fashioned police power trips. 2009\u2019s surreal sequel, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans<\/a>, directed by Werner Herzog, hands the badge and gun to Nicolas Cage, whose unconventional acting drives up the humor, volume, and violence. As far as finding a director outrageous enough to compete with Ferrara and Herzog, you could do worse than Miike, who directed the extreme-horror classics Audition and Ichi The Killer. Though Ferrara did say he wishes Herzog, Cage, and the makers of the pseudo-sequel would \u201cdie in hell\u201d and\/or be \u201cin the same streetcar, and it blows up,\u201d so you can\u2019t please everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before there was\u00a0Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Moms, there was\u00a0Bad Lieutenant. Surprisingly, since its 1992 debut, Abel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}