Bayside Shakedown 2: Blockade the Rainbow Bridge!

踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2: レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ！, or Odoru Daisousasen THE MOVIE 2: Reinbobudji wo fussaseyo! (known in English as Bayside Shakedown 2) is a Japanese Crime/Drama/Comedy film based on the highly successful TV series of the same name. The film was released in 2003 and stars Yuji Oda, Eri Fukatsu and Toshiro Yanagiba.
==Plot==
A ship takeover is underway, headed by Shunsaku Aoshima, with the rest of the crew of the Bayside Precinct playing either hostage or terrorist. However, the Japanese SAT team has arrived to rescue the hostages. Aoshima however, unintentionally exposes the fact that this is a training exercise to the media by keeping the ship's intercom active while all of the precinct's group cheers. As he's told to get serious by Chu Kusakabe (the SAT team leader), Aoshima gets his crew to capture members of the SAT team with all the tricks in the book he can think of, with himself "taking out" Kusakabe, declaring that "Sorry, but I think we won."
Some time later, Aoshima arrives at the precinct and gets pulled every which way to take care of "menial jobs". He complains to Chief Hakamada about no jobs being something you can get passionate about, to which Hakamada dresses him down over the "SAT team fiasco" from the beginning of the movie, stating that him winning is why everyone got a pay cut. As the rest of the officers in the section slowly close in on him, Uozumi tells him that it's best to leave before it gets ugly.
At the same time, a body has been found by the Rainbow Bridge, which Aoshima quickly jumps on to get a case he can put some passion into. As they arrive at the crime scene, the body is found wrapped in white sheets and bounded by red ropes between two trees, with the man's clothes below him. HQ is then called in to head the case, and HQ brings on an up and coming female officer (Okita) to head the investigation in an attempt to show equality in the police hierarchy. Everyone prepares the building for a special investigation, including Hakamada sending Aoshima and Sumire after a man for his seafood.
Once the investigation starts, Okita gets to work and tells Aoshima that she will not tolerate him trying to solve the case on his own. Soon after, an e-mail that Precinct Chief Kanda meant to send to someone else in the building gets forwarded to everyone, with everyone trying to figure out who it was meant to go to and Kanda trying to keep it under wraps. After the HQ meeting wraps with them going over the current evidence list and Okita telling the Precinct crew that they're only useful for menial work, Muroi and Aoshima get to talking, and Muroi apologizes for Okita's behavior towards anyone that is non-HQ. He then gets Sumire and takes both her and Aoshima to the basement, where they have a massive surveillance setup, using cameras from all over the city to watch for any suspicious activity. Sumire and Aoshima use it to bust petty crime, but not after gawking at just how intrusive it is on the public. After another body is found dead with a witness having had seen it happen, Okita derides them for not catching what the criminals, telling Muroi to do it by himself because he was responsible. Once the criminals call the precinct (from within the precinct), Okita brings in Mashita, the MPD's negotiator, to handle their calls. After Mashita figures out that they are in fact trying to make contact, he attempts to get as much information as he can out of them before they hang up.
After the woman is rescued, Aoshima and Sumire are assigned to protect her at an event she needs to attend to for work that the criminals are likely to attend to. They see their current cases from the beginning of the film (Aoshima with bite victims and Sumire with a pickpocket family), and have to stand by and watch as their suspects openly commit crime, with their hands tied. However, as another undercover agent wins a prize at the event, setting off confetti and explosions tied to it, the criminals escape, and Aoshima chases after his suspect into a women's bathroom, where he is then promptly knocked out by the man with vampire-like fangs.
Back at the precinct, Okita congratulates them on sticking to the book, but Aoshima rejects it as he watched helplessly as more people got attacked when he's supposed to be helping the community. Okita dismisses him as being childish, and leaves to go back to the meeting room to continue work on the investigation. Commissioner Yoshida meets up with Detective Waku, and chats with him a little about their promise, with Yoshida denoting that it's hard to change a bureaucracy. During the next meeting, a precinct officer brings up a forearm stolen from an airport, with Okita brushing it off as not relevant to the investigation. The woman they had just kept watch over meets with Aoshima and gives him a new coat as a gift to replace his old one, but Aoshima rejects it, as his coat has sentimental value to him. While looking under his desk, Sukire discovers that to counter the stun grenade, Aoshima had used earplugs. Okita then assigns the precinct officers to night watch on the streets, which after many hours, they catch one of the suspects on video with Yukino trailing him, but she's kidnapped by the same man that just used the phone, leaving the crew down one officer. 
Meanwhile, between calls from different suspects, Mashita figures out that they are laid off salarymen taking their revenge on CEOs of big companies. Between calls, he puts together the evidence that they left by the bodies (rotting fruit, milk), and comes to the conclusion that they are referring to the CEOs as "rotten", even taunting Mashita by saying "catching us won't stop the rot." They then figure that the group works on a nonhierarchical structure, meaning that everyone can be the leader, and everyone has an equal say.
Everyone returns to the precinct and figures out what to do, with the only hint left being "Kameda", which they recorded at the party. As they try to lock down the island, the rainbow bridge can't be shut down without it being cleared by multiple government agencies. They then realize that the "Kameda" was supposed to refer to the "Kamata" tunnel, and Aoshima meets up with the SAT team to grab the suspects. Aoshima sees the suspects get out of the elevator with Yukino in their hands, wildly flailing the stolen gun around. They meet up up there with Sumire, who notices the little girl from the pickpocket family and tries to save her, with the SAT team not being allowed to fire by Okita's order as to avoid a PR disaster but doing so, Sumire is shot by the man with the stolen gun, with the suspects being able to make a hasty escape and Sumire being taken to a hospital for emergency surgery.
Okita then tells everyone to move on with their work and that the precinct officers are expendable, with everyone now ignoring her for allowing an officer to get injured in such a manner during an investigation to save face. Aoshima then goes back to the precinct and talks directly to Muroi and tells him that he trusts him to be a strong leader in the face of adversity. Shinjo then takes Okita back to HQ for inquiry, and Muroi takes over, with the crew immediately getting to business. Aoshima locates the suspects' hideout as some of the other officers rescue Yukino and arrest a couple of the suspects. They then go to close down the bridge while not caring whatsoever about what the other government agencies think when the other suspects drive by and stop to taunt Aoshima about how leaders suck and that the individual is greater than the group. Aoshima refutes this, with them then driving away, mocking him, only to lead to a SAT ambush. Kusakabe then remarks on how they went ahead and acted without orders and tells Aoshima to let them know that they caught the criminals.
The TV crews then interview Aoshima, who tells everyone to show up to the Bayside precinct to donate blood to help save Sumire. At the precinct, while everyone lines up to donate blood, the vampire shows up to take another victim but accidentally bites Uozumi and concedes defeat. Chief Kanda is with the other two chiefs and remarks aloud on how even if Sumire dies, they did their best, with everyone staring at him. He is then promptly carried away by internal affairs for his email to a lower ranking officer. Mashita attempts to propose to Yukino, but she is unimpressed that he's a Negotiator but he tries to beg her to marry him. At the hospital, Muroi comes to check on Sumire's condition and chats with Aoshima a little, with Detective Waku stepping in to talk to them to continue his promise he made with Commissioner Yoshida (from the previous movie) to try to fix how HQ treats the lower ranking officers, then walking away.
Several months later, Muroi and Aoshima are to be given awards, but Aoshima isn't at the ceremony, instead out in the field trying to find something in a field during an investigation. Sumire is helping a local bathhouse with their water being stolen, and while Aoshima finds it, but then immediately drops it and has to start searching again.
==Cast==
*Yuji Oda as Chief Sergeant Shunsaku Aoshima
*Toshiro Yanagiba as Superintendent Shinji Muroi
*Eri Fukatsu as Chief Sergeant Sumire Onda
*Miki Mizuno as Officer Yukino Kashiwagi
*Yusuke Santamaria as Assistant Inspector Masayoshi Mashita
*Susumu Kobayashi as Assistant Inspector Osamu Nakanishi
*Kenta Satoi as Assistant Inspector Jiro Uozumi
*Soichiro Kitamura as Chief Soichiro Kanda
*Akira Saito as Chief Harumi Akiyama
*Takehiko Ono as Chief Kengo Hakamada
*Ikariya Chosuke as Waku Heihachiro
*Shigeru Kamiyama as Toshiaki Yoshida
*Miki Maya as Hitomi Okita
==Alternate Versions==
This film has two different versions, with the longer Japanese Theatrical cut being the more common one. The International Version features alternate takes of some scenes, a complete sound remix (using the then popular Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES options), and excises about 19 minutes of footage.
The scenes removed in the Int'l Ver. are as follows:
*The opening scene, which serves as an in-universe advertisement for the Odaiba island.
*The scene of the Commissioner from the first film meeting with Detective Waku.
*Sumire talking to the chiefs about the leaked email.
*Yukino and Mashita talking about how he can't get a feel for who the suspects are, as the group doesn't function like the usual type they've dealt with.
*Sumire being taken away and everyone dealing with the fallout.
*Mashita's failed proposal.
*Kanda being taken away by internal affairs.
And other small bits of footage here and there. Notably, the scene introducing Okita comes before Aoshima finds the body of the first murder victim.
==Trivia==
*This was the highest grossing domestic live action film at the time of its release (surpassing its predecessor), and still has not been surpassed to this day.
Category:2003 films
Category:Japanese films
Category:Crime drama films