Films on the Law

[Michael Craig]

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?
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> Markus
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> (Sent from my iPod, so please excuse the brevity and mistakes.)
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