Films and the Rule of Law

[Michael Kerpan]

The question is --- when will this film show up on DVD
in subtitled film? I was surprised that the Japanese
DVD left these off. ;~{

MEK

--- Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Arthur Stockwin, in launching the fourth edition of
> his 'Governing Japan' last week, singled out
> imperfections in the rule of law as one of the major
> challenges to Japanese democracy, as does Asahi.com
> in the editorial that John Junkerman's post links
> to.  What is noteworthy is that, to illustrate this,
> at both the launch and in the book, Professor
> Stockwin singled out Suo masayuki's film Soredemo
> bokuwa yattenai to make his point.
> It's not every day that an august text book leaves a
> feature fiction film to make an argument and it is
> surely a compliment to a gripping film which tackles
> the impact of the administration of justice - the
> first thing that gets jettisoned in most court-room
> dramas.
> Roger