Bad Lieutenant Goes From Nicolas Cage to Tokyo in a Violent New Trailer
The teaser spotlights Liv Morgan and Shun Oguri in a violent crime thriller that follows a disgraced detective into addiction and corruption.
- NEON released a brutal teaser trailer today for Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, a neon-soaked crime thriller confirming the film will continue the franchise's tradition of moral decay and brutality.
- Following the framework Abel Ferrara established with his 1992 original starring Harvey Keitel, this entry follows Werner Herzog's 2009 follow-up featuring Nicolas Cage. Ferrara disavowed the sequel, telling reporters he hoped the filmmakers would "die in Hell."
- Shun Oguri stars as a disgraced Tokyo police officer and compulsive gambler investigating a disappearance. Lily James plays an enigmatic FBI agent searching for the missing daughter of a powerful American family.
- World Champion Liv Morgan appears alongside an ensemble cast including Takanori Iwata and Jun Kunimura. Written by Daisuke Tengan, the project premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2026.
- No official narrative links connect the three Bad Lieutenant films despite the shared franchise name. NEON has not set a domestic theatrical date, currently listing the thriller only as coming soon.
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Photo Credit: @neonrated / YouTube NEON has released a brutal teaser trailer for Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, giving audiences a vivid look at the director’s neon-soaked crime thriller. It came just hours after the studio shared first-look photos and confirmed the upcoming movie will deliver the same moral decay and corruption that defined its predecessors. Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo from Takashi Miike gets a brutal teaser trailer Shun Ogur…
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Director Takashi Miike joins the bad force in the Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo trailer
Before there was Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Moms, there was Bad Lieutenant. Surprisingly, since its 1992 debut, Abel Ferrara’s unflinching crime drama has grown into a loose trilogy, and it’s now an international concern. Joining the ranks of Ferrara and Werner Herzog, legendary Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has taken charge of the Bad Lieutenant series and sent it to Japan. Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, the third installment in a loose series …
Teaser Trailer: "Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo"
The first trailer has been released for “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo,” the third overall film in the somewhat unique franchise about a cop behaving badly. Abel Ferrara helmed the original 1992 film with Harvey Keitel, seventeen years later Werner Herzog directed the Nic Cage-led “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” in 2009. Now, seventeen years on again, famed “Audition” and “13 Assassins” filmmaker Takashi Miike helms this Japan-set neo-noir en…
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