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The Third Murder

2017 · 125 min

A quiet, cerebral legal drama that keeps shifting the ground under you, asking what truth anyone can really know.

Directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Crime
Starring
Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose
Tagline
Everyone has a truth to want to believe.
Overview
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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Directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Crime
Starring
Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • deception
  • guilt
  • morality
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama, mystery, crime
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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