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BBC-Netflix thriller Giri/Haji and how we learnt to love ‘foreign’ TV

It’s generally best to take the pronouncements of TV executives with a pinch of salt, but when BBC drama controller Piers Wenger described the new series Giri/Haji as “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before on British TV”, it was hard to disagree. A co-production with Netflix, its opening 25 minutes are confined almost entirely to Tokyo, the dialogue is in Japanese and the direction teems with cuts, pans and musical montages. The leading man is unknown outside Japan, and the story slinks from violent Yakuza thriller and gumshoe mystery to kitchen-sink family drama and witty character study. Read More...

It’s generally best to take the pronouncements of TV executives with a pinch of salt, but when BBC drama controller Piers Wenger described the new series Giri/Haji as “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before on British TV”, it was hard to disagree. A co-production with Netflix, its opening 25 minutes are confined almost entirely to Tokyo, the dialogue is in Japanese and the direction teems with cuts, pans and musical montages. The leading man is unknown outside Japan, and the story slinks from violent Yakuza thriller and gumshoe mystery to kitchen-sink family drama and witty character study.

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