踊る大捜査線: THE MOVIE, or Odoru Daisousasen: THE MOVIE (known in English as Bayside Shakedown: The Movie) is a Japanese Crime/Drama/Comedy film based on the highly successful TV series of the same name. The film was released in 1998 and stars Yuji Oda, Eri Fukatsu and Toshiro Yanagiba.
Plot[]
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On the morning of November 4, 1998, Criminal Chief Sergeant Shunsaku Aoshima meets up with two of the "Three Amigos" (Chief Shoichiro Kanda and Deputy Chiefs Harumi Akiyama and Kengo Hakamada), to take the Metropolitan Police Department's Police Commissioner (or by direct translation the Deputy Superintendent**) Toshiaki Yoshida, to a tournament sponsored by the police. He hits off a red smoke ball, but it ends in the water.
Later that same morning, the rest of the Wangan Police Department gather at a nearby river to fish out a drowned body, while the Kachidoki precinct, the one neighboring the Wangan precinct, argue with them over who has jurisdiction over the body. Meanwhile, Aoshima and the two chiefs that went with him to take the Commissioner to the golf game come back to the precinct with some smoke balls. After some chatting with the others in the precinct, Aoshima gets back to his desk to find that his questioning receipts are gone, as well as Mashita's watch and Uozumi's wallet. Simultaneously, Theft Chief Sergeant Sumire Onda barges into the office with a suspect and is told about all the stolen items. Meanwhile, the Commissioner is dropped off at his house from the golf game and a couple of people follow him to his house and kidnap him.
Meanwhile, the Wangan office is taped up and dusted for prints and Sumire questions Aoshima, accusing him of not filing them and telling him that if they're not found, the 50,000 yen they're worth will come out of his pocket. After the questioning, Aoshima meets up with others in the office to discuss the dead body from earlier that day and rule out multiple different options that it could have been, as Waku then tells everyone that the front of his chest had been sewn shut with a teddy bear inside, ruling out the chance that it could have been self-inflicted. Afterwards, while everyone is working on their own reports, the MPD files into the meeting room in the building and starts a special investigation into the kidnapping of the Commissioner. The "Three Amigos" then proceed to make a sign for the meeting room, with one of the MPD officers then saying that it is a private investigation and immediately removing it. Aoshima asks his friend, Superintendent Shinji Muroi why they're being left out, with Muroi telling Aoshima and the others that the orders came from above.
Aoshima leaves, frustrated, with officer Yukino pulling him to the side for help with the murder case. They, with the help of Mashita, find that the victim went on chat rooms a lot and was always on his computer, mentioning that there was one chat room he visited frequently what was all about murders and death. After finishing up with the two of them, Aoshima leaves to take care of something else, only to be pulled to the side by Sumire to talk to a group of girls in costumes that are featured on a computer game show to which all of their stuff had been stolen, mentioning that anyone in a costume can get in. As the investigators leave the conference room, Waku speaks to one of them who tells him that they aren't supposed to check the crime scene, to which Inspector Waku decides to do it anyways to find some leads. Meanwhile, the captors call the conference room and demand 100 million yen in a phone box at a theme park the next day. Muroi then has to get the money together, under the pressure that should he lose it his budget for future investigations would be cut.
While Aoshima looks through suspects in a book for who could be their person, Sumire talks with the chiefs about their more expensive lunches, with them claiming they got theirs "leftover, from upstairs", and complain that those under them spend too much money on their arrests. The chiefs have the crew in the office number the bills, and while they take care of it, Yukino asks why they don't just photocopy the money to have 100 million. They laugh at her for a moment, then proceed to take a photocopier from the special investigation room and do just that. As chief Kanda checks in on them, he sees Aoshima holding up the photocopied bills and is horrified to see what they've done. The next day, the special investigation takes the money to Dreamland for the drop-off and to apprehend the perpetrators while Aoshima, Kanda and Yukino try to meet with the killer at a cafe. As negotiations with the kidnappers fall through, Yukino is contacted by the serial killer and after they chat on their computers for a moment, Yukino is attacked by her and she escapes.
Later that day, Aoshima and Muroi talk about their two dueling cases and Muroi apologizes for not keeping up his promise with Aoshima to support the local precinct since the investigation started. Aoshima tells him that he can do it, he just needs to stick to it. Even later on, the investigators listen to the call with the suspect and they hear Aoshima over the telephone, pulling him to the side for questioning. After enough time and looking through enough people, Aoshima tries to take a nap and is promptly pulled away again for more questioning, now by someone else as Sumire's receipts also go missing. Meanwhile, the special investigation gets a call from the kidnappers and is told that there is a cop monitoring the premises and that "it's over." They figure out that Waku has been walking around there and pull him to the side and scold him for messing with the investigation.
The next morning, Manami Hyuga, the serial killer and former nurse, comes back for her computer and then threatens to kill herself when she doesn't get it. A man then tackles her to the ground and as Hyuga is carried away, they find that he's the thief they've been looking for the whole time, buying costumes and fake props to get away with larceny, but admits he wouldn't have stolen receipts. Later that morning, the investigation goes public and Waku tells Aoshima that the commissioner and him are old friends, similar to him and Muroi, and that's why he's been so insistent on helping the investigation. Sumire then takes him down to the cell that Hyuga has been detained in and plays the final call from the kidnappers for her, with her telling them all they need to know.
Waku then goes back out on the street to follow the man he's seen repeatedly jogging around the block to his apartment, and is then assaulted and bound with duct tape, with them showing him into a small shed with a furnace going. After filling him in, Mashita then tells them that there were others on the chatroom planning a kidnapping of a company chairman. After looking through the members, they find one that matches their current profile and track him down. Waku then pushes a smoke ball he got at the beginning of the film into the open flame and Aoshima sees it, taking Sumire to the source of it and freeing Waku. He then tells them he knows who the perp is and if he can go in, with the heads at the MPD telling him to wait for backup. Muroi then disregards their opinion and tells Aoshima to go in without mercy and arrest him. Aoshima, after tracking down the apartment and arresting the young men who committed the kidnapping is then stabbed in the side by the boy's mother so she could protect her son.
Sumire and Muroi then take Aoshima back to Muroi's car and take him to the hospital, with Aoshima's blood loss not slowing down and Aoshima loses consciousness. After the two of them have a moment of silence thinking Aoshima is dead, they then hear a loud snoring coming from him, with Muroi mentioning that he thought his friend was dead and Sumire saying that he had been three days without sleep. The rescue team then retrieves the Commissioner and announces that the investigation is over. Back at the office, Sumire is asked to take care of Aoshima's reports while he's out and as she tears up her letter of resignation, she spots Chief Akiyama tearing up small white pieces of paper and accosts him over it, seeing that these were all of the missing receipts. Chief Kanda is then arrested for larceny and taken away with Akiyama just nervously shrugging his shoulders to Chief Hakamada, who is baffled at the current situation.
Muroi, now reprimanded and taken down a few steps on the ladder for not following orders, meets up with Inspector Waku at the hospital to check in on Aoshima. Aoshima, walking with crutches and talking to a nurse, tells her that his boss is on the way up the ladder and that he shouldn't waste time on Aoshima. He then talks about his other co-workers in a rather demeaning manner, though all in jest as Muroi walks away.
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Cast[]
- Yuji Oda as Chief Sergeant Shunsaku Aoshima
- Toshiro Yanagiba as Superintendent Shinji Muroi
- Eri Fukatsu as Chief Sergeant Sumire Onda
- Miki Mizuno as Officer Yukino Kashiwagi
- Yusuke Santamaria as Assistant Inspector Masayoshi Mashita
- Susumu Kobayashi as Assistant Inspector Osamu Nakanishi
- Kenta Satoi as Assistant Inspector Jiro Uozumi
- Soichiro Kitamura as Chief Soichiro Kanda
- Akira Saito as Chief Harumi Akiyama
- Takehiko Ono as Chief Kengo Hakamada
- Ikariya Chosuke as Waku Heihachiro
- Shigeru Kamiyama as Toshiaki Yoshida
- Kyoko Koizumi as Manami Hyuga
Trivia[]
- This was the highest grossing domestic live action film at the time of its release, only surpassed by its sequel, Bayside Shakedown 2.
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Notes[]
- * The AR is still unsure, as the Japanese DVD release is 1.78:1 while multiple other releases are 1.85:1 and there is no hard evidence as to which is the correct ratio.
- ** The subtitles are localized for English speakers for those that don't understand the Japanese police system, and as such there is a discrepancy on what means what.