Prime immagini per il nuovo film di Kore-Eda Hirokazu, il regista giapponese, habitué del Festival di Cannes, che sarà questa volta a Venezia in concorso, con un film solo apparentemente lontano dai suoi ritratti intimistici e familiari. Questo è apparentemente un courtroom movie in piena regola, interpretato da Hirose Suzu, Fukuyama Masaharu e Yakusho Koji.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low – his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all.
