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hen I was young, I wanted to be a ninja,” says director Corin Hardy He didn’t realise that dream, but his love of martial arts movies – and westerns, and horror, and Korean revenge thrillers – led to his appointment directing episodes of the Sky Original that shuffled gritty crime elements with heightened genre tropes to become a record-smashing hit.

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