Inside ‘The Furious’: How Kenji Tanigaki Built an Action Movie That Hits Different After the Epstein Files

Maria Simulescu

IndieWire talks to Tanigaki and star Xie Miao about the year's most brutal action movie, hailing from Hong Kong. If there’s a universal truth to agree upon in our divisive age, it’s that child traffickers are scum of the earth and thus well-positioned to serve as fodder in modern action cinema. Thus, the premise of Kenji Tanigaki ’s new movie, “ The Furious “: When mute tradesman Wang Wei’s (Xie Miao) daughter, Rainy (Yang Enyou), is taken from him in broad daylight by members of just such an