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Miike Takashi's 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' Explores Redemption Without God

Updated 2026-09-10 15:55 UTC 1 source Neutral

Director Miike Takashi's new film 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' delves into the moral complexities of a corrupt man in a world without divine intervention. The movie explores themes of redemption and the absence of religious guidance.

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Miike Takashi Finds a Path to Redemption Without God in Toronto Title ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’: ‘It’s Not That My Aims Are to Depict Violence or Violent People’

Every “Bad Lieutenant” film has had to answer the same question in its own way: what happens to a corrupt man when there’s no God left to save him? Abel Ferrara’s 1992 original built its entire moral architecture around Catholic guilt, climaxing with its lapsed-Catholic detec

2026-09-10 15:45 UTC