Hazard
“Three criminal punks from Japan stir up New York City.”
Cast
Joe Odagiri Jai West 
Motoki Fukami 
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi Rin Kurana Sayako Hagiwara
Credits
Written by: 
Sion Sono
Plot
Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York.
Sinekatalog’s take
A loose, comic-tinged drama about a bored student who takes a travel book's dangers too literally and ends up in trouble abroad. The tone is playful and the energy is scattershot. Suits viewers who enjoy offbeat, restless Japanese cinema.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.7 / 10 (931 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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