Movie

The Voice of Sin

2020 · 142 min

A quiet, deliberate cold-case mystery that weighs heavily on the past, rewarding patient attention with emotional depth.

Overview: Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, guilt, family, memory
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 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: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
guilt
family
memory
identity
Places: big city
small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none