Shirayuki Hime Satsujin Jiken (2014)
Genre: Mystery
Duration: 126 minuten
Alternative title: The Snow White Murder Case
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Stars: Mitsuki Tanimura, Mao Inoue and Gô Ayano
IMDb score:
6,9 (2.263)
Releasedate: 29 March 2014
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Shirayuki Hime Satsujin Jiken plot
The beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People are starting to suspect her co-worker Miki Jono. The television begins to tell its story. A TV program interviews Miki Jono's colleagues, family and people from her hometown. Rumors turn to fear. Is she an evil woman?
Actors and actresses
Miki Shirono
Yuji Akahoshi
Risako Kano
Noriko Miki
Yuko Tanimura
Emi Mitsushima
Minori Maetani
Mizutani
Hasegawa
Shingo Eto
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87737 messages
- 13162 votes
Smooth Nakamura.
A pretty fun whodunnit, that is indeed a bit less strict about maintaining the mystery, but has a nicer packaging in return. It's a switch that wasn't all that hard to make, since Nakamura actually shows his cards from the start.
The film starts, as usual, with a dead body, then it is up to a journalist and a frenzied internet community to track down the perpetrator. Twitter is the unique character in this film, not so easy for a Japanese film because it is a lot of onscreen text that you have to go through with relatively awkwardly placed subtitles.
But Nakamura keeps it all on track. The film looks neat, the pace is good, the light comedy note provides some extra fluency and for a film that could easily have ended in a dusty 120 minutes that is quite a successful balance. But as is often the case with Nakamura that little bit extra is missing. There was a little hype around him for a while, but as a top director he has never really been able to live up to it. He does not succeed with this film either, but it is certainly a nice subtopper.
3.5*
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Disappointing film, which falls victim to a modern addiction: tweeting. Especially in the first part, the screen regularly fills up —left, right and below— with tweets and the accompanying subtitles. That makes it almost impossible to follow the underlying images. Only from the part in which Shirono (Mao Inoue) tells her side of the story, does it seem somewhat like a normal film again. For me, the fun was already over by then, especially since it had long been clear that she was not the perpetrator.
I can accept the use of social media in films given the current times. However, you should not overdo it and director Nakamura does that in this film. With the all-pervasive role of twittering, he almost ruins the film, although it was probably his intention to point out the dangers of twittering. I doubt that films are a standard means of conveying that message.
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mrklm
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- 12860 messages
- 10708 votes
Ambitious television journalist Yuji Akahoshi [Gô Ayano] seizes his chance when Risako Karino [Misako Renbutsu] informs him that she worked closely with the beautiful Noriki Miki [Nanao], the victim in a sensational murder case named after the soap she helped market. Yuji scores high marks with the editors with his sensational report in which colleague “Ms S” [Mao Inoue] is identified as the main suspect and decides to make a series of reports. In doing so, he seems blind to the fact that each new testimony sheds a completely different light on what actually happened. Blackly comic modern variation on Rashomon with hilarious reports (including voice distortion, suggestive intertitles and the extremely wrong “exciting” music) is a strong indictment of the influence of commerce on news gathering, as well as a parody of the often amateurishly made (and poorly researched) true crime documentaries that pollute our social media. Very well acted, often hilarious, but with a running time of 127 minutes it is on the long side.
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