The law in Japanese film

[Jason Gray]

> I've seen a number of television dramas set in
> courtrooms, but the 
> relative lack of movies using courtroom drama is
> striking. Makes 
> Hollywood look obsessive about lawyers dealing
> justice (not to mention 
> the news, OJ Simpson-style docudrama, etc.). Is
> Japanese law so boring?
> 

There are no juries in Japan, so there's nobody for
lawyers to "perform " to (though that'll be changing in
the next couple years), making dramatics harder to work
in.  Kurosawa's "Scandal" was great, though.