Films on the Law

[Michael Kerpan]

>Twelve Gentle Japanese

I was trying to track this one down.  I assume not realistic -- as there aren't jury trials in Japan.

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject: RE: Films on the Law
> To: "kinejapan" <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 3:21 PM
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> And I forgot, while I was thinking about Nakahara Shun, his
> comedic take on Twelve Angry Men, Twelve Gentle Japanese
> (Juuninin no yasashii Nihonjin, 1991).
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> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:05:26 +0000
> From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com
> To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
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> Sasabe Kiyoshi's?Half
> a Confession (Han-ochi, 半落ち, 2003) is one that
> immediately springs to mind, and does Nakahara Shun's DV
> / Domestic Violence (2004) fit in with what you are looking
> for?
> Jasper
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> Midnight Eye
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> > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:00:30 -0400
> > From: anne.ishii at gmail.com
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: Re: Films on the Law
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> > I also don't know "law films" per se (à
> la John Grisham), but there  
> > are many many police flics and tv shows. Taiyo ni
> Hoero, Shinjukuzame  
> > and Tokusou Saizensen immediately come to mind. They
> aren't courtroom  
> > drama (straight up hardboiled fare), but they are
> about law enforcement.
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> > On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:
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> >> 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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