Films on the Law

Jonathan M Hall jmhall at uci.edu
Thu Apr 9 11:30:54 EDT 2009


The KineJapan archives should have the short thread from a couple  
years back about courtroom dramas; the overlap might be helpful for  
Markus' question.
In that thread, I mentioned Yureru 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.

Jonathan



On 10 Apr 2009, at 00:04, Anne McKnight wrote:

> Interesting question--I guess it all depends on how you cut the  
> term "law."
>
> 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.)
>
> I guess the intro of the jury system this year might lead to  
> different narrative possibilities--more chances for dramatic  
> monologue & juror intrigue, etc.
> 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).
>
> Isn't there a bangup courtroom sequence, also, in Mizoguchi's "Taki  
> no shiraitô"?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:
>
>> 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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