Hard Days Movie Review: Junichi Okada, Go Ayano Starrer Is Remake Of Korean Thriller That Will Leave You Breathless

In the first ten minutes, the film's committed protagonist, seen driving in the pouring rain, learns that his mother has died in hospital and that a departmental corruption investigation has found him guilty. As if all this were not enough, the man trips in front of his car and dies.

Yuji Kudo (Junichi Okada), our troubled hero, hides the body in the trunk of his car and heads to the hospital to pay his respects to his mother, but on the way he is intercepted by the police who suspect that he has dirt in the trunk. . . . and alcohol in your body. breath.

And we're just getting started. The aptly named “Hard Days” will leave you exhausted. There's over-activity and stunts galore on the street and in tight spaces, making this remake a little unsettling in its mood and desperate in its premise. However, this does not prevent him from drawing attention to the plot.

Once inside, there is no other way out but the end. The dizzying speed gives us infallible concentration. However, not everything is plausible or even convincing. The corpse in the bib poses a particular problem because the plot forces it to be hidden, sometimes to the detriment of sanity.

In the end, so much suffering is inflicted on poor Kudo that, after a while , Hard Days feels like an extended apology for unfortunate pornography.

While the plot is all over the place, much of the dramatic conflict occurs between Yuji Kudo and Takayuki Yazaki (Go Ayano), Yuji's cold police colleague who is supposedly investigating corruption charges against Kudo, but to no avail. in fact, it's a scam far bigger than anything Kudo could have pulled off.

Compared to the 2014 Korean original, this new version works incredibly better. I have rarely seen a thriller that depends so much on pacing. Most of the time trial was well done. But sometimes you wonder what Dark Days would have been like if everyone—the writer, the director, the actors, and the characters—had slowed down a little.

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