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Not that a lot of people are paying attention seeing that most of the major studios have dropped out this year due to the ongoing Hollywood strike, but the San Diego Comic Con is in full swing and with it we have an awesome and bloody trailer debut for you courtesy of Well Go USA that hit the con yesterday!
Hydra Director Kensuke Sonomura is back and he’s taking on the dark, brutal underworld of the Yakuza for his latest throwback style bloodfest filled with insane fight choreography and not for the squeamish violence. Bad City is the name and this one features Japan’s action sensation Tak Sakaguchi as well so check out all the no holds barred footage, stills and key art below!
In a city plagued with poverty and crime, a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor by eliminating opponents from the rival mafia. A former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released to head a special task force to arrest him in the action-adventure crime thrillerBAD CITY, hitting Digital Exclusively August 1,before exploding on Blu-ray™ and DVD September 19 from Well Go USA Entertainment. The sophomore effort from director Kensuke Sonomura (Hydra), BAD CITY stars legendary Japanese actor Hitoshi Ozawa (Takeshi Kitano’sBoiling Point, Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive), Akane Sakanoue (Alice in Borderland, Ultraman X), Masanori Mimoto (Enter The Fat Dragon, Hydra, Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse), Lily Franky (Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Academy Award®-nominated Shoplifters), and Tak Sakaguchi (Versus, Death Trance, Prisoners Of The Ghostland).
Synopsis: Long plagued by poverty and crime, Kaiko City has been torn apart by rampant corruption and growing violence between the local Yakuza faction and a notorious Korean crime boss. But when a mafia-connected businessman runs for mayor and begins systematically eliminating his opponents, a former police captain imprisoned for a brutal murder is released in a final desperate effort to reclaim the city.
BAD CITY has a runtime of approximately 119 minutes and is not rated.
Hydra was a sensational slow burn potboiler punctuated with a couple rousing and take no prisoners set pieces so Bad City looks to up the carnage even more. There’s no shortage of chaos here and this one has the look and feel of some of the great actioners that came out of the 80’s and 90’s in Japan.
Having Tak, who lit up the screen with such classics as Versus, Re:Born, Death Trance and Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1 is just a solid and bone crunching plus. He’s one of the premiere talents to ever come out of Japan and he doesn’t do a lot of films so it’s always a holiday for action fans when he’s involved.
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