Films on the Law

[Michael Kerpan]

Mizoguchi's Victory of Women (not very accurate, I suspect)

Suo's recent I Just Didn't Do It

Nishikawa's Sway (a secondary issue)

In a backhanded fashion, Kaneko's Death Note (esp. part 1)

Kurosawa's Scandal

Hashimoto's I Want to Be a Shellfish

Oshima's Death by Hanging

Imai's Darkness at Noon and also Story of Pure Love (juvenile justice -- or injustice -- system)

Sai's Doing time

Yamada's Kiri no hata 

Nomura's Jiken

I'll probably think of some more as soon as I press send....






--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:

> From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
> Subject: Films on the Law
> To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 2:36 PM
> 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.)
>