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Giri/Haji

#1 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:05 pm

I really enjoyed the first episode (of eight) of Giri/Haji (or Duty/Shame), and it was quite surprising to realise that there is potentially going to be three major subplots with their own groups of characters going on (even four if we add in the chaos occurring back in Tokyo too and the yakuza boss threatening violence against Kenzo's family if he cannot have revenge on the brother) rather than just your standard border-crossing police investigation into a murder that provides the main thrust of the narrative (in fact rather than international co-operation this is apparently all having to be kept hush-hush from the UK police under the pretext of a cultural exchange programme so that the presumed killer can be spirited away back to face justice on home soil!). So whilst we have policeman Kenzo being pressurised into going to London to investigate a yakuza boss's relative's murder (carried out by his own presumed dead brother), we also get the gay half-Japanese rent boy who might be in an abusive relationship, and Kelly Macdonald's character of a slightly too upbeat crime technique lecturer with a dark past that seems to involve someone having been released from prison into the community and eventually sticking snakes through her letterbox!

That all plays into the Duty/Shame part of the title already, with the rent boy's coerced 'duty' to his lifestyle making him callous and unable to feel 'shame' for his cruel treatment of his latest jilted boyfriend. And Susan's duty to be responsible and professional undermined by her colleagues and this dark aspect of her past coming back into her life. Kenzo has the 'duty' of finding his brother and bringing him back to Tokyo to pay for his crimes, but also the shame of knowing what really happened...
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which gets revealed in the flashback that Kenzo himself actually finished the job and committed the murder that his younger brother has then gone on the run for years earlier, as a way of getting him out of the criminal lifestyle before he was too far in. Presumably Kenzo helped Yuto fake his own death too, which is probably why he seems less surprised when the yakuza boss and his Chief Inspector boss arrive at his apartment with the news that his brother is alive and to force him to go to London and bring him back, than concerned that both the police and the yakuza now know that Yuto is still out there somewhere! Maybe it is in Kenzo's interests to get to Yuto first and silence him without taking him back to Tokyo? So Kenzo has all that complicated, literal guilt hanging over him for a crime that he committed but his brother is taking responsibility for, and may have pushed his younger brother from being a gang member into an even darker hitman lifestyle.

And this is even more complicated by the fourth subplot of Kenzo's family back in Tokyo having their own troubles, most specifically the teenage daughter getting expelled for stabbing another student who groped her. Though she seems to have a very close bond with her father that still lets them bond even after that act, whilst the mother despairs and is more shut out of her daughter's life. And the daughter seems to be interested in Uncle Yuto as well, and perhaps idolises him for his criminal behaviour before he disappeared. Which of course we later learn in the flashback Kenzo committed the murder that defined the younger brother anyway! Either way, the daughter seems to be worryingly interested in going down the criminally violent path herself in this first episode.

It ends with her having disappeared off onto the streets of Tokyo without telling her mother where she was going to (which kind of reminded me slightly of the Julia Ormond teen daughter subplot in the Traffik mini-series!), but unfortunately the rather too long 'on the next episode' teaser spoiled the mystery of her disappearance too quickly by showing her turning up in London herself and interacting with the rent boy character! I have a couple of concerns that now that the daughter has joined Kenzo in London that the 'important' characters have been removed and now the wife and elderly parents left behind in Tokyo are potentially going to be easily expendable victims of the angry yakuza boss without much consequence (especially as that too long next episode teaser shows their apartment being shot up! Though if a stray bullet hits the granddad's oxygen tank and accidentally blows up the building that would be very blackly comic, especially after the potential foreshadowing of the grandmother stopping him from smoking whilst wearing his oxygen mask in the early scene in this episode!), all the better to push the tentative romance elements between Kenzo and Susan more, as a new surrogate family. I'm hoping that it does not quite go down that well worn path, but we'll see.
So a really interesting first episode, and I really liked the intercutting of all three characters facing their threats for the cliffhanger at the end (Susan the snake in the mailbox; Rodney the rent boy going up the ominous staircase (he's shown beaten up in the teaser for the second episode, which appears to be the event that brings all the subplots together almost immediately again), and Kenzo the sniper in the building opposite). I have my theories above about how all the characters are going to interact in the next episode, but will have to wait and see. There have also been some really great twists even in the first episode - this first episode is really all revolving around Kenzo's frustrated efforts to get the entry code to enter the building where the murder occurred and assess the crime scene for himself, and the revelation about just why it was so difficult to get the code for the door straight away (which ties into why Kenzo was not picked up at the airport when he arrived, and only gets revealed when the rent boy character amusingly helps Kenzo enter the 'member's club') is a really great moment. As well as showing that there is probably some key bit of evidence there that might further the case, or else he would not be being prevented from access in such an enthusiastic manner!

Plus Justin Long's in the second episode teaser, muttering something about 'the Albanian's being involved now', so his character is coming up too!

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#2 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:04 pm

“He’s a male prostitute who helped me with a…task. He got injured in the process, so he is here to recuperate briefly”

So I presume that we now know that the killing in the opening episode was probably Yuto’s first, even if Yuto does not! I liked the pre-credit sequence of starting months previous to the murder with Yuto ingratiating himself with a London gangster (and bumping the American real estate business partner played by Justin Long trying to help Abbot go legit out of favour in the process!) which jumps closer and closer to the moment with Kenzo being targeted by the sniper.

Then the main action of the episode starts with a digression into Rodney’s troubles after having been beaten up. And Sarah’s storyline and being shunned by her police colleagues and forced into a teaching role is beginning to make more sense now as a kind of #MeToo style plot of having sent a colleague to prison for six years based on an (as yet) unspecified accusation, and she gets a couple of scenes of being shown to be more competent than her colleagues as well as watching on whilst Kenzo disappears suddenly from the lecture to go and try and get the safe in the office of the murdered man open before the British police get there. But Sarah in asking Kenzo about the case of the stabbing ends up providing him with both firm evidence of his brother and the address of Justin Long’s character Vickers, though she does unfortunately end up seeing more than she should when she runs into Rodney!

Unfortunately the contents of the safe reveal photos that could ignite the gangland war back in Tokyo even further by showing certain members of the yakuza in compromising situations. Which both backfires on the police inspector back in Tokyo (his wife is being used in the liaisons!) and on Kenzo’s family as the yakuza gangleader Fukuhara seems to realise that these photo have been suspiciously planted in order to ignite the conflict (and maybe by getting the Tokyo gangs to fight each other, that might solve his problem by itself!)

I really like that in the conversation with Vickers (in a scene which lets Justin Long play out a great nervous breakdown) that Kenzo never reveals that he is Yuto’s brother, which is another moment of Kenzo withholding a very important piece of information that might affect their behaviour if it would stop him from furthering his own goals (as in the later moment with Rodney too, when he sends him to scope out the address of the sniper that Vickers had given him!). Though he does reveal that information to Rodney and Sarah in one to one conversations later on.

And I also really like the meet up between Sarah and Rodney without Kenzo, which is a little contrived in its set up but which allows both the recently assaulted and historically abused characters to get together and compare notes, as well as get an outsider’s perspective on the Kenzo situation. Which inspires Sarah to both confront her own abusive boyfriend (by answerphone message) and Rodney’s assaulter face to face, as a way of sublimating her own anger (and I like the way that it plays out triumphantly for her whilst Rodney's abusive boyfriend is just left bewildered by the lady who has turned up on his doorstep to threaten him!). And she is very astute in summing up the situation as she sees it once she gets to meet Kenzo again.

I suppose this episode is all about the various characters overstepping the bounds of their ‘duty’, though often without any ‘shame’ in doing so! Extracurricular activities seeming to pay off characterise Yuto getting in with Abbot’s London gangster; Kenzo breaking into the safe sets off all the events back in Tokyo of the yakuza boss Fukuhara being set up for the killing and himself now targeted by rival gangs out for vengeance; Sarah being trapped in an unfulfilling job but striving to break out of it and displaying all of her investigative skills; Rodney bringing all of the characters together; and even the daughter Taki disappearing again at the end of the episode, of course only to end up in London as the teaser at the end of the first episode very prematurely revealed! Speaking of surprise reveals, the cliffhanger involves the two brothers meeting up episodes before I would have thought they would have…
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#3 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:47 pm

After a very brief face to face meeting between Kenzo and Yuto at the beginning of it, episode 3 seems to the theme of characters using others and putting them into dangerous situations without forewarning them as its motif. Kenzo uses Vickers to get to Abbot, trying to broker a deal but not really too concerned about Vickers (and vice versa). Rodney finds out that the boyfriend he cruelly brushed off at the start of the first episode has OD'd and then when he runs into Taki in Kenzo's student accommodation (seriously, more people have slept in Kenzo's bed than he has at this point!) he drags her along to visit the grieving parents and leaves her stuck in the middle of firery accusations being flung about between them. Yuto kind of drags Donna into the final standoff of the episode by assuming that she is still in the restaurant that is about to get raided. And Sarah tries to have a nice Yom Kippur dinner with everyone, but that is only because she is afraid to be alone now that her abusive boyfriend is out of prison and having welcome home drinks in the local pub with her work companions!

Even Kenzo's police colleague back in Japan ends up getting the rather gormless British policeman Roy (who did the cultural exchange swap with Kenzo) into trouble by getting him first to sit in the car as a lookout outside the local yakuza gang leader's house (which he falls asleep during! [-X ) and then bringing Roy actually into the house itself on the next occasion only for him to end up with a gun thrust into his hands as everyone there ends up stuck in the middle of a potential firefight!

I say "potential firefight" because that is where this episode ends, with the build up to two simultaneous home invasion shootouts in Tokyo and London, all whilst safely away from the upcoming carnage Rodney is introducing Taki to hedonistically carefree dancing in the local gay club!

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#4 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:03 pm

"Did you feel that earthquake earlier...They say there might be aftershocks"

Well that was a great turning point episode that provides a lot of the answers to how everyone got into their situations, with Yuto's flashback to events before he escaped from boss Fukuhara to London taking up the first half of the episode. That killing in London wasn't his first then. We get the origins of all the details that have been suggested to be significant explained. A petty crime situation spiralling out of control but bringing him into the orbit of Fukuhara, but having killed one of the rival gang meaning he has to atone with his finger (using the same sword that he later steals and kills Fukuhara's cousin with in London). The burgeoning if inadvisable relationship with Fukuhara's daughter. Being informed of the illicit photos of Fukuhara and the Police Inspector's wife that later get planted in the safe. And the relationship with Kenzo is interestingly updated (Kenzo being angry that he has covered for Yuto only to see him become a yakuza member, and rather belittling Yuto by suggesting that the only thing Fukuhara is interested in him for is his connections to the police). Yuto and Taki get a few nice moments together too, with them getting on whilst the rest of the family have other concerns.
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Interestingly that past flashback is shared with Sarah's flashback to what happened with her boyfriend Ian. The slow deterioration of the relationship and the suggestion of him having an affair. She finds mysterious messages on his phone about 'meeting up the next afternoon' and then following him, which turns out to have a raid on a criminal, which of course makes him a celebrated figure on the force. But in being suspicious about the affair she has witnessed him planting evidence that they then raided the suspect for. She testifies against him in court and that is the reason why she has become a pariah amongst her colleagues, as they were all either taken in or in on the deception themselves. Perhaps even Roy! (Who amusingly we briefly see back in London, similar to the way that Taki is back in Tokyo in these past set episodes)

Then back to the Tokyo flashback for the really neat resolution that the job that Yuto was involved in (and which Kenzo completed, sending him on the run) was not just any old job gone wrong but caused by him admitting his relationship with the daughter to Fukuhara, making Fukuhara put a hit out on him. I like the telephone conversation with Fukuhara that after his wife died he promised two things: that he would win the gang war that she was killed in and never let such clan battles happen again; and never let his daughter marry a yakuza. So that really explains why Yuto carried out that killing in London and is framing Fukuhara with those compromising photographs - he's making sure that Fukuhara is going to lose any gang war as well as his daughter.
Then the episode ends by returning to the present time and the simultaneous gunbattles both in the club and in Tokyo where everyone comes face to face with their opposite number, but then moves beyond that to throw out lots of interesting juxtapositions (Yuto's car going over the cliff in the past against Sarah testifying; Taki picking up the nailclippers that she stabbed that kid with against Yuto holding the sword that he committed the murder with) that suggest that everyone is experiencing their own versions of being thrown into turmoil by events out of their control.

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#5 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:02 pm

Episode 5 takes place in the aftermath of the gunfights as everyone is either fleeing the scene or lying injured. Taki and Rodney find Yuto shot in the back alley and take him back to Sarah's and the rest of the episode is pretty much about them laying low in this disgraced police officer's home whilst trying to figure out what to do next. Lots of phone calls that end badly feature here, from Kenzo calling Donna to inform him about Yuto's condition (and there is a brilliant scene with Vickers and Donna (two characters used as proxies by Kenzo and Yuto respectively to inveigle themselves into the gangland culture) hiding out in another part of the city that kind of does the whole Tarantino 'conversation ending with a bang' thing, and shows why Justin Long is not higher up in the cast list!), to Kenzo having a wrenching phone call with his wife Rei about the failing condition of their father (which feels like it contrasts against the burgeoning relationship with Sarah), and also the whole issue of the Police Inspector in Tokyo finding out from his UK equivalent that Kenzo has already found Yuto after that night's shootout, although it is left hanging in regard to just when he is going to call Kenzo on his bluff. In Tokyo itself everyone is trying to protect the injured Fukuhara in his hospital bed, or else there will be all out war.

There's also an interesting scene of Rodney 'inducting' Taki further into the pleasures of drugs and same sex relationships, whilst looking on and reminiscing over the boyfriend he betrayed!

Though the big twin threads building in this episode are when exactly the father in Tokyo is going to die (and unfortunately after that happens I think Kenzo revealing his has found Yuto to his mother by reciprocal text message might just be the thing to come back to haunt him), and when is Sarah's house going to get raided, either by the police looking for Kenzo and Yuto, or by her ex-boyfriend targeting her again (or both, working together. Especially now that the boyfriend has found out that they are staying at Sarah's 'safehouse' the scene is set for an almost beat for beat replaying of the previous situation, only without having to illegally plant evidence on the person they want to take down this time. It is almost as if Kenzo has unwittingly gifted them Sarah). After the big gangland shootouts, this one is very much about the domestic threads taking the fore.

There is also the sense that our main characters, having been comprehensively betrayed by everyone else in their lives (family, colleagues, police, yakuza) are going to have to do some extra judicial actions of their own, as in the big cliffhanger of this episode:
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where Yuto calls up Kenzo's wife Rei back in Tokyo to get her to steal his newborn son (and Fukuhara's grandson) away from Fukuhara's compound. Presumably this is what is going to lead to their family home being shot up in reprisal, as briefly shown all the way back in that teaser after the first episode

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#6 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Nov 21, 2019 6:03 pm

"Just because something isn't your fault, doesn't mean you can't feel guilty about it"

Episode 6 seems to be the episode dealing with grief, as the grandfather is mourned whilst Rodney goes off the rails with mixing drugs and liquor whilst carrying out conversations with his dead boyfriend, before everyone tries to let their guilt go. But its never quite that easy.

I really liked the early scene of Kenzo being called in to the British police chief and taking Taki with him to pretend she has to translate for him, only for them to carry out a secondary conversation between them at the same time as answering his questions (which parallels well with now almost destroyed London gang boss Abbott trying to talk to Shin Endo in Tokyo and being given a brusque brush off for his wonky 'cultural appropriations' and aspirations), as well as the formal and informal paralleling funeral scenes of the women officially honouring the dead grandfather back in Tokyo and the erzatz family on the beach half a world away doing the same. Though the moment of Kenzo letting Yuto take the keys to the car after making such a fuss about him being let out of Sarah's locked bedroom was a little bizarre (maybe it was Kenzo testing him), though it allowed for a nice moment of Yuto seeing his lost love in the back seat, as if he was still chauffeuring her, that helped him change his mind on abandoning everyone on the beach.

There were some nice transitions, such as the car ride back to London segueing into Rei and Natsuko off on their mission to steal Yuto's son from the yakuza compound, rescuing Eiko as well in the process. So now all three of them are on the run with the baby. Yuto himself appears pretty calm throughout this episode, mostly because he has set this other train of events in motion. But we get a couple more supporting characters adding to the complications with Ian confronting Sarah over harbouring a criminal, and the Police Inspector in Japan sending another officer to London potentially to finish the job that Kenzo cannot.

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#7 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:04 pm

"Everyone's happy for a while"

Episode 7 feels like the 'phone call' episode as the telephone usage is relentless here. It is also the episode where all the plotlines start getting resolved and the chickens all come home to roost. I liked the moment hanging on Rei, on the run, having to make a choice about which brother to call. Although it does not really matter which in the end as they are both in close enough proximity to hear each other's voicemail. And Kenzo finally comes clean about that early murder he finished on Yuto's behalf only for Yuto to be completely unsurprised by the revelation.

The parallel between the two dads leaving urgent 'call me back' messages on their daughter's phones which they proceed to ignore completely is a nice one: Kenzo on Taki's phone and Fukuhara on Eiko's. Also the parallel between the uncertain (but probably horrible) fates of Kenzo's police colleague brought to London by the yakuza (when they reveal they know the whereabouts of Taki's new girlfriend and don't need him any more) and the policewoman that the three women on the run back in Japan encounter who then falls foul of the other group of yazkua on their trail simply by the use of a slow zoom into a scene left empty. (I could have had an entire episode just devoted to the three generations of women on the run through the Japanese countryside in that rental car, alternately bonding and forcing home truths on each other!)

I really like that Sarah initially appears to let Yuto leave to go off and deal with Ian for her (similar to the way that she interceded with Rodney's abusive boyfriend in the early episode) but then changes her mind and meets him directly. Which all ends surprisingly amicably! But then Rodney tries to return the favour that Sarah did for him with his boyfriend and screws everything up. Badly. Very, very badly.

And the inevitable love scene occurs between Kenzo and Susan, but I liked that it was as much an extension of being grief stricken and having definitely ended their previous relationships in highly dramatic fashion over the last day as much as any kind of burgeoning romance coming to a head. And that itself gets paralleled with Taki getting disillusioned with her own first love probably just being a hipster collecting a selfie experience with an Asian girl to post on her Instagram page. I guess in a way it was inevitable that the final episode appears to be all distilling down to the relationship between father and daughter above all. Though we leave Taki unfortunately too ready to ignore dad and return to the arms of the (probably dead) girlfriend after a suspiciously sudden make up text....
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#8 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:00 pm

"I hear everyone's moving East these days..."

Well Taki being kidnapped resulted in all the characters (except Rodney who was off chasing demons of his own, now responsible for two deaths) going off to the rendezvous point. Sarah ends up being more than one step ahead of the bewildered police colleagues, still reeling from the death of Ian. Yuto has nearly escaped back to Japan but goes back for his niece. And after forcing Yuto to do so, now Fukuhara has to make some sacrifices of his own to stop the clan warfare, but will he know when to stop? I like that Sarah and Rodney's mother are probably at different points in the same old story, if Sarah lives to make it that far.

It is a nice symmetry that both episode 4 and 8 end up with big show downs occurring in both countries simultaneously. I particularly liked that Abbot resurfaces to become a worryingly competent comic relief figure, and Roy becomes an unlikely (and rather too convenient to remain undercover!) saviour after having played the long game (in a very funny extended flashback that covers all of the events of the series that he was involved in that we had not otherwise had the chance to see!).

And then it all turns into one long suspended moment turned into a modern dance piece, with everyone teetering on the edge of disaster. And Taki is still doing the thing of reinterpreting into Japanese for her own purposes, to the (bitter) end.
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And it is nicely ironic that Sarah is pretty much back in the same situation that she was at the beginning of the series at the very end of it, watching another partner going to prison and having to wait for them to be released whilst probably becoming even more of a pariah than ever to her police colleagues for her role in the events of the series!

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#9 Post by Persona » Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:01 am

In the process of watching this on Netflix so trying not to read through all your analysis yet, colin, but I will say I am really enjoying the show. On the front of it, it seems very unassuming (which is not a bad thing with many other shows striving to be cinematic or having a pretense of greatness) but it is really well done and so many elements of it are interesting or things I don't feel like I've seen in a TV show, nor would have expected to see in an international cop/crime show.

Just finished episode 3 and I'd say I'm pretty well hooked.

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#10 Post by GaryC » Wed Apr 08, 2020 2:37 pm

I'm five episodes in, watching while it's still on BBC Iplayer (it leaves in eight days) and I'm pretty well hooked as well.

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#11 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:52 am

I know a lot of the praise at the time went to the character of Rodney, which is perhaps the showiest role of the series, but I really was left most surprised by just how much I liked the three generations of women (crotchety but practical grandma finding a new purpose in life, middle aged mother facing estrangement from both her husband and teenage daughter, and young mother with baby) travelling through picturesque Japanese landscapes pursued by yakuza whilst teaching lessons in manners to bikers who will not take no for an answer in roadside cafes along the way. It makes the contrasting rather gloomy trip to an off season Brighton beach (intentionally!) pale in comparison!
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#12 Post by GaryC » Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:57 am

I have to wonder how they would have cast Rodney if Will Sharpe hadn't taken the role. I don't know how many other Anglo-Japanese male actors there are in that age range.

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#13 Post by Persona » Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:02 pm

The back half wasn't as good as the front half, but I am still glad I watched this.

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#14 Post by Persona » Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:04 pm

Oh and that beach memorial scene was special.

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#15 Post by The Curious Sofa » Thu May 21, 2020 1:39 pm

I enjoyed this a great deal even though I thought there were pacing issues. Paradoxically the gangster/yakuza stuff was the least interesting aspect about the show for me even though that's the hook. As this goes on, it becomes all about the characters and they all are compelling and well drawn.

Maybe its my current emotionally frayed state during this crisis but I can't remember the last time I was so touched by a scene as I was by that dance sequence in the last episode.

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#16 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Aug 01, 2020 6:41 am

I do wonder if the 'imaginary moments of connection that are otherwise impossible in reality' element to the musical numbers in Dancer In The Dark had any influence on that final dance sequence?

Will Sharpe won Best Supporting Actor at the TV Baftas for his role in Giri/Haji.

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