Black Report

A businessman is murdered and the investigation arrives at a suspect. The suspect is then put on trial for that crime. The film follows the matter from the side of the investigation and from the side of the courtroom. How the case is built stands at the centre of the account. The question of how much of the evidence is certain and how much is interpretation carries the story. It comes from the vein where crime and courtroom films meet in Japanese cinema of 1963. The ninety two minutes are spent in pursuit of a single case. Ken Utsui and Junko Kano appear in Yasuzō Masumura’s Japanese film, completed in 1963.