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Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon stand-ins never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon Tokyo night street with a trench-coat detective stand-in. Panel 2: movie-theater screen marking a TIFF premiere for Bad Lieutenant Tokyo. Panel 3: cartoon sushi-bar beat. Panel 4: neon Coming Soon board for Bad Lieutenant Tokyo.
Four panels: neon Tokyo night street, TIFF premiere theater screen, sushi-bar gag beat, Coming Soon Culture board. Cartoon stand-ins only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Neon’s Japanese trailer for Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

What happened

FirstShowing, dated September 14, 2026, posts Neon’s full official Japanese trailer for Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. The film is premiering at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this month as a Special Presentation. Coverage frames it as a standalone sequel vibe to Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) and the third installment in the Bad Lieutenant series. The logged logline: a gambling-addicted Tokyo cop and an FBI agent search for a missing politician’s daughter while a mysterious killer lurks. Culture packages here recap the dated trailer drop, the studio, the festival premiere, the Herzog Port of Call lineage as reported, and the plot hook — not a spoiler dump and not a likeness gallery.

Cartoon figures only — never celebrity likenesses and never photoreal portraits of living actors. Prose may name reported roles as printed (Shun Oguri as the disgraced Tokyo detective; Lily James as the FBI agent; also credited Liv Morgan, Shotaro Mamiya, Jun Kunimura, Hiroshi Tachi, Nanase Nishino) without claiming the cartoon panels look like anyone. Screenplay by Daisuke Tengan; Neon for the U.S. Bright neon pink and Tokyo night blue. White gutters. The FirstShowing URL is the receipt. Skip politics-adjacent casting chatter. Ignore any wrong festival-city labels that may appear inside comic art — verified premiere is TIFF Toronto, not a Tokyo film-fest rename. A TIFF-bound Miike trailer with a firm Bad Lieutenant lineage is a clean Culture slot for this batch.

Trailer filings stay short on plot and long on logistics. Readers get FirstShowing’s Sept. 14 post, Neon, Miike, the Japanese trailer, TIFF premiere, the Port of Call standalone-sequel framing, and the gambling-cop / FBI / missing-daughter hook — the board that matters when the clapper snaps shut.

Why it matters

The strip is the neon Tokyo night beat, the TIFF premiere screen, the sushi-bar trailer gag, and the Coming Soon board. Color on the neon and the festival stub. White gutters. No celebrity portraits. Readers get the Miike / Neon / TIFF package, the Herzog Port of Call lineage as reported, and the dated Japanese trailer drop without wandering into politics.

Conclusion

FirstShowing’s Sept. 14 Neon Japanese trailer for Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo flags a TIFF premiere and a standalone sequel vibe to Herzog’s Port of Call New Orleans, with a gambling-addicted Tokyo cop and FBI agent searching for a missing politician’s daughter. Cartoon stand-ins only. Source: https://www.firstshowing.net/2026/amazing-must-watch-trailer-for-takashi-miikes-bad-lieutenant-tokyo/

Source: FirstShowing