Kelly Macdonald, who played a compromised copper in “Line of Duty,” appears here as DC Sarah Weitzmann, who attempts to help Tokyo detective Kenzo Mori, played by Takehiro Hira, track down his brother in London.
“Giri/Haji” means Duty/Shame in Japanese, and the eight-episode series is a fascinating mix of a Japanese crime story and a proper British police yarn. Kelly Macdonald, who played a compromised copper in “Line of Duty,” appears here as DC Sarah Weitzmann, who attempts to help Tokyo detective Kenzo Mori, played by Takehiro Hira, track down his brother in London. Since his brother is suspected of having killed the nephew of a powerful Yakuza figure, there’s plenty of brutal Tarantino-esque action taking place among organized crime figures in both countries in this stylish and original bilingual thriller.