Nathan's Take: After being acquitted on corruption charges, businessman Gojo (Lily Franky), announces his intention to become mayor of Kaiko City. With Korean Crime Boss, Seung-gi (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), in his pocket and a number of connections to politicians and prosecutors, Gojo's rise to the position looks to be all but certain until a special investigation team lead by disgraced Captain Torada (Hitoshi Ozawa) is set up to take down Gojo and expose his crimes. Torada is a tough as nails cop suspected of murder and is promised to be cleared of his accusations if together with his small team of Violent Crimes detectives, he can bring Gojo down. Bad City is not quite the V-Cinema homage/throwback/love letter that its being touted as, sure it's low budget and captures a similar spirit and rambunctious energy that gave birth to a generation of auteurs, but it is also very much, for better or worse, a contemporary Japanese action film, with all the trappings that come with it....