Directed by:
Michihito FujiiCinematography:
Keisuke ImamuraComposer:
Tarō IwashiroCast:
Tori Matsuzaka, Eun-Kyung Shim, Tsubasa Honda, Tomohiro Kaku, 岡山天音, Seiya Osada, 高橋努, Naomi Nishida, Yukiya Kitamura, Kazuya Takahashi, 田中哲司Plots(1)
Yoshioka (Eun-kyung Shim) is a Tokyo reporter with truth-seeking zeal haunted by her father’s destroyed journalism career and subsequent suicide. Meanwhile, Sugihara (Tori Matsuzaka) is a bureaucrat on a glide path to promotion who comes upon a shady government-funded school that could point to a historic cover-up. Together, they must decide what to do when doing the right thing feels like self-sabotage. Based on journalist Isoko Mochizuki’s book, Michihito Fujii’s thriller recalls All the President’s Men in its depiction of journalism’s civic duty, replete with bustling newsrooms, late night leak intercepts and whirring printing presses. (Japan Cuts)
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Tori Matsuzaka
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Yukiya Kitamura
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Kazuya Takahashi
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田中哲司
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