Giri / Haji
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:30 pm
Japanese for Duty /Shame; and is a BBC production available on Netflix in the US. It is set in London and Tokyo; much of the dialogue is Japanese but with effective subtitles; and it grabs your attention for eight episodes. The acting is superb with not one actor I have ever heard of. I can't do better than lift the plot summary direct from Wikipedia . . .
Watch the first episode. If you hate it - well, you've wasted 50 minutes of your life and feel free to castigate me. But I think you'll stay for the rest of it.
. . . but that is maybe 1/10 of the plot. I could expand it but that would involve spoilers.Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), a Tokyo detective, travels to London in search of his brother, Yuto (Yōsuke Kubozuka), who was previously assumed to be dead. Yuto has been accused of murdering the nephew of a Yakuza member, which threatens to start a gang war in Tokyo. As Kenzo attempts to navigate the unfamiliar territory of London to uncover whether his brother is alive and guilty, he becomes acquainted with DC Sarah Weitzmann (Kelly Macdonald) of the Metropolitan Police and Rodney Yamaguchi (Will Sharpe), a young half-Japanese, half-British sex worker. While searching for Yuto in London, Kenzo must also support his family back home in Tokyo. Kenzo's investigation brings him into contact with dangerous elements of London's criminal underworld.
Watch the first episode. If you hate it - well, you've wasted 50 minutes of your life and feel free to castigate me. But I think you'll stay for the rest of it.