Bayside Shakedown
(1998)
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Bayside Shakedown
(1998)
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Yûji Oda | ... | |
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Toshirô Yanagiba | ... | |
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Eri Fukatsu | ... | |
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Miki Mizuno | ... | |
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Chôsuke Ikariya | ... | |
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Sôichirô Kitamura | ... | |
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Takehiko Ono | ... | |
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Manami Hyuga
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Kenta Satoi | ... | |
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Yûsuke Santamaria | ... | |
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Toshio Kakei | ... | |
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Daisuke Ryû | ... |
Ohbayashi
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Kuniyasu Atsumi |
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Shigeru Kôyama | ... |
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Station vice-chief Toshiaki Yoshida
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Jun Oda |
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Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down. A corpse is found in the river, then the Police Commissioner is kidnapped, leading to the Metropolitian Police Department to take over the investigation which is led by Murai. Will he be true to his pact with Aoshima and co-operate with the local police? In the meantime, the murder investigation leads to a morbid web page and a deadly chat room in cyberspace... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
This movie is weird. This is the kind only japanese can make. But hopefully this is not (I hope so!) the kind only japanese people can love. It can't be glued to any genre and for example (as it's a huge success) Hollywood won't be able to make it again. Extraordinary action sequences, ultra-suspense and ZAZ-comic-like is a light sum-up of what can be found in this weird but very exciting movie.