Badly in Love — Netflix moves Japan’s yankii dating academy to the beaches of Okinawa

Badly in Love — Netflix moves Japan’s yankii dating academy to the beaches of Okinawa

There is a specific kind of courage the tough-kid pose is built to forbid, and it is the one this show demands on camera: to want another person out loud, with no swagger left to hide behind. Badly in Love gathers young Japanese men and women who once wore the yankii label — the delinquent, the rebel, the kid a neighborhood learned to cross the street to avoid — and asks them to do the softest possible thing in front of everyone. The bravado is …