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Masquerade Night

2021 · 129 min

A polished, ticking-clock whodunit that keeps you scanning the crowd alongside the detective, more puzzle than peril.

Directed by
Masayuki Suzuki
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Masami Nagasawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Overview
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.

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Directed by
Masayuki Suzuki
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Masami Nagasawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • deception
  • crime
  • justice
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

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Genres
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Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Cinematography
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Runtime
129 min
Country
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Languages
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