Bad City

Bad City (BAD CITY, 2022) is a Japanese crime actioner you can watch online on iFILM. Director Kensuke Sonomura pairs with Hitoshi Ozawa — an icon of 1990s V-Cinema — for a film set in Kaiko City, a place where the rule of law stopped applying long before the story starts.

Corrupt businessman Wataru Gojo is eliminating mob rivals on his way to the mayor's office. The prosecutor's countermove: pull former police captain Makoto Torada out of prison mid-sentence — he's doing time for murder — and put him in charge of an off-the-books task force with a single mandate: bring Gojo down before the election makes him untouchable. The city's rot runs deep enough that the mission looks suicidal from the first briefing.

Sonomura spent years choreographing action before he started directing, and it shows in every sequence here — clean mechanics, hits that land with actual weight, no shaky-cam cover. Stream Bad City (2022) online on iFILM.