By drax on Skatehive
When the talents brought by someone's quality are combined with the resources brought by someone's quantity, the results can be truly impressive. One example of this could be the collaboration between the BBC, the British state broadcaster which enjoys—though nowadays not so justified—the status of the best television in the world, and Netflix, considered the most propulsive television house largely thanks to its tireless stamping out of original content. Their latest co-production is Giri/Haji, a crime mini-series that, after its premiere on the BBC, became globally available to Netflix subscribers. The title in Japanese means "Duty/Shame", and these are precisely the feelings between which the protagonist finds himself: Tokyo police detective Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), whom duty compels to consistently enforce the law and service rules at work, while traditional values dictate that he share a roof with his elderly parents, wife, and rebellious 16-year-old daughter Taki (Aoi Okuyama)