Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. Review: Aoshima Returns After 14 Years
Aoshima's return after 14 years reopens the part of the franchise that the Muroi Shinji films had carried in his absence, and the review places the new film as an update of the series' methods rather than a break from them.
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The review covers Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. Race Through the Metropolis!, starring Oda Yuji, which opened on September 18. Aoshima Shunsaku returns to the lead after 14 years, following the 1997 TV series, the 2012 film Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: A New Hope, and the two Muroi Shinji films in 2024. The review says the humor and the case material have updated for the present while keeping what it calls the series' core.
The review of Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. Race Through the Metropolis! describes the humor as a product of the whole scene, carried by the actors, the props, and the music rather than by punchlines. The case material moves with the times: stalking and profiling, which the 1997 TV series already depicted, and online posts used to track a suspect's movements, now a routine police method. The new film adds 3D-printed guns and crimes built around unusual reasoning. Oda Yuji plays Aoshima Shunsaku, whose habit the review singles out is to act on what he feels before what he reasons out.
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- Cinema Today 【レビュー】『踊る大捜査線 N.E.W.』進化を遂げて再始動 室井との“約束”を胸に青島俊作が走り出す