Bad City
2022 1h 58m movie Film Japan

Bad City

バッドシティ

Synopsis

バッドシティ

Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.

The 2021–2023 Japan Window

389 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Bad City sits at position #264.

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Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Bad City. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

The 2020s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Bad City premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Reception Benchmarks

6.9
TMDB Rating
73
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #2,338 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (49th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Japan Action productions specifically: #934 of 1,714 (top 54%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
Original Language Japanese
Production Companies Rights Cube, ソリッドフィーチャー, Shibuya Productions
Runtime 1h 58m
Release Date July 5, 2022
IMDb tt21243618

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