Giri / Haji: BBC-Netflix show transplants Tokyo’s yakuza into London’s underworld

When two underworlds collide there’s likely to be hell to pay, and so it proves in Giri / Haji, the Japanese-British crime drama linking Tokyo’s yakuza territory to London’s gangster turf. Morose Japanese detective Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), henpecked and harassed at home in Tokyo, is on a now-streaming, eight-episode Netflix mission: to flush out and return home Yuto (Yosuke Kubozuka), his missing yakuza brother, presumed dead but actually in hiding in London, having been run out of his…

from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/38Gqa2I