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...Ochoa's attorneys, Keith Findley, says his client signed the confession only because police had threatened that he would get the death penalty if he didn't. Earle and assistant D.A. Claire Dawson-Brown, who worked on the case, say Ochoa may have been frightened in the police station, but they point out that he told the same story for years afterward. Nonetheless, two innocent men had been convicted--and one will pay for the rest of his life. In 1991 a fellow inmate wearing steel-toed shoes kicked Danziger in the head. Part of his brain...
...cultural red tape that struck a chord with Japanese and made the movie an instant social phenomenon. After its release, police academies across the nation reported an increase in applications; some tourists arriving in Tokyo to this day are disappointed to discover that the film's mythical Wangan Police Station doesn't exist. "People collected Bayside-related goods," recalls Kawasaki City housewife Yoshimi Yamakawa. "It was like if you wore an Aoshima coat, you could be like him. There has never been a drama that made people go that far. It created maniacs...
...original movie, audiences were introduced to Aoshima, an idealistic but hotheaded homicide investigator posted to a backwater district where nothing much seemed to happen. Soon enough, however, he and his good-hearted pals at Wangan Police Station found themselves with two nasty crimes on their hands?a gruesome murder and the kidnapping of a police commissioner. Simultaneously, they had to fend off the arrogant and frequently sleazy meddlings of headquarters bigwigs who swooped in to oversee the politically sensitive investigations...
...expected adrenaline-pumping scenes failed to materialize. Where were the car chases, fight scenes, stunts, gun battles and helicopter crashes? There were none. Throughout the movie's entire 119 minutes, none of the five main characters even held a gun. When a lunatic actually pulled a pistol in the station house, the whole joint?of cops, mind you?practically cleared out in a panic...
...These themes play just as well in the sequel as in the original. This time around, Aoshima and the rest of the Wangan Police Station get thrown into an even larger, more tangled web of crime involving multiple murders and a terrorist plot to blow up Tokyo's landmark Rainbow Bridge. And before they can start sorting through the evidence themselves, the know-it-alls from headquarters invade again, certain that the Wangan police just aren't up to the job. Though slicker than the first movie, the seriocomic tone remains, and the crime-related plot lines are still secondary...