I am loving Netflix having more jmovies but Hard Days is not the right movie. Okada Junichi is a dirty detective drunk driving when he hits a person and kills him. He puts the in his trunk to hide the incident but keeps running into incidents treathening to expose him.
Ayano Go is the internal affairs police officer who wants to question Okada Junichi about a bribery issue. Most of the tension of the show comes from Okda Junichi trying desperately to keep his secret. There is a twist in the middle and the show is about what desperate people will do to get what they want.
The problem with Hard Days is it is pretty boring. I did not care about the characters and the directing was not good enough to convey the tension. Hard Days is based on a Korean movie which I have not watched and my feeling is this is another The Departed, a remake that completely misses what made the original great.
Hard Days looks and feels like a tv movie rather than something made for cinema. I was watching the movie thinking where is the budget for this movie with 2 big name actors going because I don't see anything visually movielike? I have seen WOWOW doramas that looks much better like Samayoi Yaiba.
Its by the director who did The Journalist which I bloody love and Avalance that was ok. I did not care about anything in this movie except for Hirosue Ryoko. The action scenes betwen Okada Junichi and Ayano lacked that visceral energy. We are left with an inconclusive ending and the final reveal made me say, so what? Boring and waste of time. Avoid.
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