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The Incident

1978 · 138 min

A slow, sobering courtroom drama that quietly accumulates detail until the weight of a life and a death becomes almost unbearable.

Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Shinobu Otake

Overview: The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.

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Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Shinobu Otake

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: crime
justice
class
isolation
morality
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: procedural
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, crime, mystery
Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Written by: Kaneto Shindō
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Shinobu Otake, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kei Yamamoto, Junko Natsu, Asao Sano
Music: Masa Matsuda, Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata
Runtime: 138 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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