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The KineJapan archives should have the short thread from a couple years back about courtroom dramas; the overlap might be helpful for Markus' question.<div>In that thread, I mentioned <i>Yureru</i> is an insightful film about justice and the legal system, directed by Nishikawa Miwa. For what it's worth, I can't think of another legal/courtroom drama directed by a woman in Japan, Hollywood, or elsewhere. And of course, much of Kurosawa Akira's Record of a Living Being (Ikimono no kiroku) takes place in the family courtroom.</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 10 Apr 2009, at 00:04, Anne McKnight wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Interesting question--I guess it all depends on how you cut the term "law." <div><br><div>Frank Upham, J-legal scholar who runs an interesting global law program in NY, came to USC last year to talk about how he used visual materials in teaching about the "postwar." The film he used was "Sore demo boku wa yatteinai." "Sore demo" is a courtroom drama, which seems to be relatively rare. (In his take, due to the presence of "activist judges," whose role in the system is very different than in the US system.) </div><div><br><div>I guess the intro of the jury system this year might lead to different narrative possibilities--more chances for dramatic monologue & juror intrigue, etc. </div><div>Also, if the Interwebs are correct, there appears to be a course on this @ Harvard Law that the student might be able to horn in on if it is offered next year. Taught/screened by Mark Ramseyer, who is also a prominent legal scholar (from a rational choice perspective, if memory serves).</div><div><br></div><div>Isn't there a bangup courtroom sequence, also, in Mizoguchi's "Taki no shiraitô"?<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#622F70">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a grind interested in films on law in Japan. This would be an easy lost to whip out for Hollywood film, but few titles come to mind for Japan. How about you folks?<br><br>Markus<br><br>(Sent from my iPod, so please excuse the brevity and mistakes.)<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>