Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo Debuts Trailer Ahead of TIFF Premiere

A TIFF world premiere with a new Japanese trailer signals NEON’s intent to build international attention ahead of a U.S. release later this year.

Overview

  • Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo debuted an official Japanese trailer and is set for its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.
  • Shun Oguri stars as a disgraced Tokyo detective and Lily James plays an FBI agent, with WWE star Liv Morgan cast as the missing American woman at the center of the story.
  • The film follows a corrupt, gambling-addicted cop who becomes entangled with a vengeful ex-yakuza and an FBI-linked investigation into a powerful family’s missing daughter.
  • NEON released the trailer and lists a U.S. release for the film later this year but has not announced a firm date, and producers include Pressman Film, Recorded Picture Company, Nippon Television, and OLM.
  • The movie is marketed as a standalone sequel in the Bad Lieutenant lineage and represents Miike’s auteur take on noir and yakuza crime, with the TIFF launch aimed at generating critical buzz and distribution momentum.