Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Japan | 2017 | Fiction | 125 min | Japanese w/English subtitles
Film Source: Film Movement
A courtroom drama of rare philosophical inquiry, The Third Murder stars Masaharu Fukuyama (Like Father, Like Son) as an elite attorney tasked with defending a murder suspect who was spared the death penalty for a killing 30 years prior. Recent Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda uses a Rashomon-like narrative structure — in which the defendant bizarrely keeps changing his story — to question the possibility of objective truth in a legal matter of life and death. ~LB