The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013) is a Japanese action-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Reiji Kikukawa holds a distinction from the police academy: the lowest exam score in its entire history. He gets fired shortly after graduating — which turns out to be the plan. The police need someone the Yakuza would never suspect, and Reiji fits perfectly.

Director Takashi Miike adapted Noboru Takahashi's manga with his usual kinetic excess. Toma Ikuta plays Reiji as a man running entirely on conviction and luck, stumbling upward through the criminal hierarchy while Shinichi Tsutsumi and Takayuki Yamada circle him as the figures he's trying to bring down.

The film is knowingly absurd — wigs, fistfights, slapstick beatdowns — and faster than it has any right to be. A sequel followed in 2016. Stream The Mole Song online on iFILM.