Bad Lands (2023)
Grade: Ba
Format: Film
Genre: Action; Crime
Studio: Toei
Source: novel
Netflix Global Top 10: Did not reach Global Top 10
A hardened female grifter working in Osaka's predatory phone-scam underworld is thrown into chaos when her volatile, freshly-released-from-prison stepbrother returns and their reckless grab for a massive score puts them in the crosshairs of yakuza, police, and a sadistic Tokyo financier who once enslaved her. Beneath the crime thriller mechanics, the film excavates the traumatic childhoods that forged both siblings --- abuse, exploitation, and a system that devours the vulnerable --- asking whether escape from the bottom of society is even possible. Directed by Masato Harada (Hell Dogs), it's
Cast
- Sakura Ando
- Ryosuke Yamada
- Katsuhisa Namase
- Mitsuo Yoshihara
- Yasumasa Oba