Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious Gets a Brutal First Trailer

Did you know that a movie trailer could give you a concussion?

I didn’t know you could get a concussion from watching a movie trailer, but I think that might’ve happened the first time I watched this trailer for Kenji Tanigaki’s upcoming The Furious. Tanigaki might not be the most well-known martial arts filmmaker — his main claim to fame is arguably his action direction and choreography in the Rurouni Kenshin movies — but he’s definitely pulling out all the stops for The Furious.

When a man’s daughter is kidnapped, he teams up with a journalist whose wife is also missing, and the two of them take on the criminal underworld with fists, feet, hammers, motorcycles, and even a ladder for good measure. It’s a straightforward enough premise, and it sets up what looks like a true knock down, drag out of a film à la 2011’s The Raid. In truth, several moments in the trailer just had me wincing in pain, like that sledgehammer to the head, and I can’t wait to see the carnage on the big screen.

The Furious — which stars Xie Miao (Eye for an Eye, The New Legend of Shaolin) and Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat, The Raid), along with Yayan Ruhian (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, The Raid), Jeeja Yanin (Triple Threat, Chocolate), and Brian Le (Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Paper Tigers) — arrives in theaters on May 29, 2026.

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