Films on the Law

[Mathieu Capel]

One good example would be Imai Tadashi's *Mahiru no ankoku *as well...*

*Mathieu Capel*
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2009/4/9 Michael Craig <m-craig at berkeley.edu>

> Not a film, but the "Gyakuten Saiban" series of video games--in which the
> player takes on the role of a trial lawyer, investigating crime scenes and
> developing lines of questioning aimed at tricking witnesses into
> confessing to murders (somewhat on the order "Matlock" in the U.S., albeit
> with a different target demogrphic)--has become internationally popular in
> recent years.  It's objective is more to reimagine the dating-sim genre
> for mainstream consumption than to represent the Japanese legal system,
> but it might be interesting to investigate whether it has stimulated
> interest in other representations of the Japanese litigation process.
>
> Michael Craig
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> > 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?
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > (Sent from my iPod, so please excuse the brevity and mistakes.)
> >
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