Japanese action continues its stride this year with Bad City, the long-awaited sophomore feature from stunt multi-hyphenate and filmmaker Kensuke Sonomura, best known for clinching the fandom in recent memory with 2019 freshman hitman thriller, Hydra.
Bad City had its premiere for Neuchâtel earlier this summer and is now setting sights on Fantastic Fest next month following the line-up announcement last week. The film stars V-Cinema veteran Hitoshi Ozawa and centers on a covert team of detectives, assembled by a dauntless prosecutor and led by a grisled veteran cop to investigate the city’s criminal underbelly and its connections to a seemingly untouchable corrupt corporate magnate seeking political power.
The star himself, credited as OZAWA, also produced the film which was also made in celebration of the actor’s 60th birthday. The cast also includes Hideto Katsuya, Masanori Mimoto, Akane Sakanoue, Masaya Kato, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Lily Franky, Tak Sakaguchi, Yasukaze Motomiya, Mitsu Dan, and many more now revealed in the official poster below, along with a brand new trailer above.
Bad City is set to screen next month for Fantastic Fest following its premiere in Neuchâtel earlier this summer, and is currently on track for a preliminary screening in Fukuoka Prefecture on December 9, 2022, ahead of nationwide Japan release on January 20, 2023.
