Sandome no satsujin

Attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of the suspected murderer Misumi who served jail time for another murder committed thirty years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low, especially because his client admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As the attorney digs deeper into the case, he begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. “I wanted to depict the lawyer’s job properly. When I talked to lawyers, they told me: ‘Court is not the place to determine the truth.’ I thought: ‘If that’s the case, I want to make a film about a legal drama where the truth isn’t revealed. Usually a film reaches the truth in the end. However, in this film, only the judgment procedure concludes while the characters don’t see the truth. It means our society condones a system that cannot maintain itself unless people judge people not knowing the truth.” (Koreeda Hirokazu)