Bayside Shakedown

1998 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery

5
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1023 1K

Plot summary

Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.

Director

Katsuyuki Motohiro Photo
Katsuyuki Motohiro

Top cast

Sôichirô Kitamura Photo
Sôichirô Kitamura as Wangan Police Station chief Kanda
Daisuke Ryû Photo
Daisuke Ryû as Ohbayashi
Hajime Yamazaki Photo
Hajime Yamazaki
Kuniyasu Atsumi Photo
Kuniyasu Atsumi
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1.07 GB
1280*694
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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2.2 GB
1920*1040
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BrianThibodeau

Sparkling detective tale with nice balance of thrills and comedy

BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN (1998), which was a record-breaking hit when it first opened and spawned an equally successful sequel late in 2003, is a fantastic dramedy-thriller about a bureaucracy-heavy city police precinct involved in the hunt for a serial killer. The opening scene sets the delightful comic tone: a body floats dead centre in a small river that divides two districts, with cops from both sides wading frantically in the water to see who can get to it first and thus take on the case. On shore, two wisened detectives from the Wangan Police Station quietly mutter their hopes that if the body floats to the other side, they won't have to be bothered investigating the case. Naturally, they get the case, and young cop Yuji Oda spends the next several days hunting down the killer AND an unexpected group of kidnappers, dealing with interference that shows up in the form of secretive high-tech Feds led by an arch-rival, and witnessing the station commanders all but bury themselves in red tape and petty squabling in order to avoid doing real work, all while desperately trying to catch a few moments of desperately desired sleep. This is based on a TV show, but prior knowledge of it is unnecessary and you instantly feel a kinship with these memorable characters. Nice double-twist ending, too! I give it a 10.
Reviewed by edward_tan 4 / 10

Directionless

What is this show trying to say? Action, Horror, Romance, Culture Clashes, Loyalty, the old and the new etc. I know it's wrong to pigeonhole something but really, this show suffers from a lack of focus. Done properly, it would have carried some merit. But what I saw was just slipshod film-making. The ending was so over sentimentalised that it was barf-inducing. Terrible.
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