Audition director Takashi Miike is to make a new thriller about police corruption – Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, starring Shun Oguri and Lily James.

Over 30 years after New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara finished making Bad Lieutenant, Japanese director Takashi Miike is about to make another entry in one of cinema’s more unusual film series.

Neon, the indie company behind such hits as Parasite, Longlegs, Anora and this year’s The Monkey is behind the latest production, called Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. It’s another tale of police corruption and criminality, with Shun Oguri set to take the central role as a gambling-addicted cop on the trailer of a missing woman in the seedier parts of Japan’s capital.

Lily James and WWE wrestler turned actor Liv Morgan are to co-star, while the script will be written by Daisuke Tengan, who previously wrote the adapted screenplay for Audition – perhaps Miike’s best-known film in the west.