BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN FRANCHISE GROWS

The BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN franchise adds a new member to its ever-growing family this week: THE SUSPECT -- MUROI SHINJI. This time the focus is on the tight-ass elite cop, Muroi Shinji, played by Toshiro Yanagiba in the films, who's arrested for murdering a suspect. It's apparently more of a drama (you can see the trailer here) but it's getting good reviews and the cast seems more than happy to reunite once more, this time with new addition, Sho Aikawa.

This is the second BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN movie this summer, the first being THE NEGOTIATOR, which spun off from BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN 2, the most successful live action movie ever released in Japan.

You can pick up BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN 1 (which is truly great) and 2 (which is good, but more of the same) here.