If you want to read my review of Bad Lands, read this post. In バッド・ランズ, a couple of swindling brothers get a lot of money. The problem will be keeping it and staying alive.
Neri Hashioka (Sakura Ando) is deaf in her left ear and provides assistance to those who receive money extorted through the schemes.
“Take the money out of her purse and put it here. It’s her. Are you nervous?”
Joe Yashiro was a psychopath with the maturity of a teenager who had just gotten out of prison and, besides Neri, he had no one else.
“His resume reads like a criminal record check.”
Even though she was operating on the small side of this fraudulent pyramid scheme, bigwigs at the highest levels of the scheme were watching Neri very closely.
Reviewing Bad Lands: a thrilling Japanese mafia movie
The scams involved all kinds of people in Japan, from politicians to the police and even the Yakuza, and Neri had just been promoted to the bottom on the pyramid.
“You will be a scout from now on. It’s an order from above.”
The work consisted of observing the victims and providing assistance to others involved in the criminal organization’s various schemes.
“Thumbs up means put on a tie. Threes and fours, abort.”
The police were always on their trail and Neri’s partial deafness gave her distinct behavioral characteristics, despite her disguises.
“They would arrest us as soon as we got the money.”
Their character was extremely questionable. They were unscrupulous. The scams were applied to all types of people in the most varied ways.
“Those who have nothing steal from those who have in order to survive. It is fair and our right.”
It turns out that Joe had the idea of killing Neri’s boss and sharing the money with his sister, breaking the gears of a huge scheme and revolting many powerful people.
Reviewing Bad Lands: corruption and poverty in Japan
Brazil’s favelas were mentioned in this movie about Japanese mafias. The crime rates between these two countries couldn’t be more different, but there are still similarities.
Crime in Brazil is heinous. It kills. In Japan, fraud, prostitution and illegal gambling are prevalent.
In both cases, criminal organizations are embedded in the bowels of the State, at all levels and institutions, defrauding the population of enormous amounts of money.
Why you should watch Bad Lands
I won’t leave Bad Lands ending explained or a download link here, but this Japanese movie shows a side of Japan that is rarely seen. The poverty, the mafia and the corruption of institutions.
I love Japan, but I know that the country is not just about videos on social media, that no society is perfect because all men are flawed.
Bad Lands Trailer
I really feel that you will like this one. So I decided to do this Baddo Ranzu review. Go ahead, immerse yourself in the story, the environment and the soundtrack.
And come back later to tell me what you think in the comments. This Japanese film is Adapted from the novel “Keisou” (勁草) by Kurokawa Hiroyuki.
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