Giri/Haji

2019 1 Season 8 Episodes ★ 7.4 Crime, Drama

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find.

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Cast

Takehiro Hira

Kenzo Mori

Kelly Macdonald

Sarah

Yosuke Kubozuka

Yuto Mori

Will Sharpe

Rodney

Aoi Okuyama

Taki Mori

Yuko Nakamura

Rei Mori

Katsuya

Toshio

Tony Pitts

Angling

Yoshiki Minato

Jiro Yamamoto

Masahiro Motoki

Fukuhara

Seasons

8 eps

Season 1

2019

Details

Status

Ended

Original Language

EN

Network

BBC Two

Created By

Joe Barton

Production

SISTER, BBC

Reviews

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Noffica

April 12, 2020

★ 6/10

The suspense does not last beyond the first episode, as it becomes very conventional after that. The most prominent reason this proves to be only slightly better than a television show is the introduction and interaction of its characters. One person becomes a character simply because he happened to be in the same bar at the same time as the main protagonist, and is overheard by the latter. Oft...

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DanDare

August 25, 2020

★ 9/10

Giri/Haji is a Japanese/British neo crime thriller. It is stylishly shot and heavily influenced by Quentin Tarantino. The story concerns a fatigued detective Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira) who has been sent to London. Ostensibly it is an exchange visit. Kenzo is searching for his younger brother Yuto. Yuto is a gangster in Japan who was thought to have died. Now Yuto is linked to the death of...