For non-Japanese audiences, this slowness makes watching the film with subtitles a bit tough.and I found myself drifting off on occasion. Inexplicably, instead of just going through the motions as most lawyers would do in a case like this, Shigemori keeps digging to learn exactly what did happen and why.and, not surprisingly, it's not what the case originally seemed to be. In addition, his story is very inconsistent and keeps changing. It seems a man has pled guilty to murder and burning a corpse.and he's done little to help himself avoid the death penalty. The story is about a group of lawyers who have been a pretty hopeless case to defend. Sadly, however, the pacing is glacially slow.and many viewers ultimately might give up on the film before its conclusion. ![]() Here, in a bit of a change of pace, Koreeda takes on a story about murder.and it's complex, strange and ultimately worth seeing. In movies such as "Like Father, Like Son", "Our Little Sister" and "Shoplifters", he tells marvelous stories about seemingly ordinary and non-cimematic sitations.stories about real people and about problems which you rarely hear about in Japanese movies. ![]() In recent years, Hirokazu Koreeda has been among the most exciting and interesting Japanese filmmakers. Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10 Very good.but the pacing will create a problem for many viewers
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