{
  "id": 6606815,
  "title": "Miike Takashi Finds a Path to Redemption Without God in Toronto Title ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’: ‘It’s Not That My Aims Are to Depict Violence or Violent People’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/miike-takashi-finds-a-path-to-redemption-without-god-in-toronto-title",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-10T15:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/miike-takashi-bad-lieutenant-tokyo-god-redemption-1236855592/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Every “Bad Lieutenant” film has had to answer the same question in its own way: what happens to a corrupt man when there’s no God left to save him? Abel Ferrara’s 1992 original built its entire moral architecture around Catholic guilt, climaxing with its lapsed-Catholic detective collapsed before a church altar, pleading for absolution from […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}