Synopsis
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
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Cast
- Masaharu FukuyamaTomoaki Shigemori
- Koji YakushoMisumi
- Suzu HiroseSakie Yamanaka
- Shinnosuke MitsushimaAkira Kawashima
- Mikako IchikawaItsuki Sasabara
- Izumi MatsuokaAkiko Hattori
- Aju MakitaYuka Shigemori
- Tōru ShinagawaWatanabe
- Toshie NegishiLandlady
- Tsutomu TakahashiSakurai
Recommandations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Though different in feeling from the Japanese writer-director's perceptive family tales like After the Storm, it has the same clarity of thought and precision of image as his very best work. - 80
The Guardian
The Third Murder is a captivating puzzle. - 80
Screen Daily
Kore-Eda, writer, director and editor, an auteur in the full sense of the word, tunes his approach to the genre, but only up to a certain point. - 75
Slant Magazine
In The Third Murder, as in his other films, Hirokazu Kore-eda informs tragedy with a distinctive kind of qualified humor that's realistic of how people process atrocity. - 70
Paste Magazine
The Third Murder may not be Kore-eda’s best work, but the film proves a satisfying challenge, a complex exploration of sin and righteousness in an amoral world. - 65
Film Journal International
Technically splendid but emotionally distant, The Third Murder will seem more like a detour than a destination for his fans. - 60
CineVue
Kore-eda has unquestionably added a new, intriguing angle to his meditation on family life in contemporary Japan. - 58
IndieWire
A harsh and largely unwelcome change of pace from Japan’s greatest living humanist filmmaker, The Third Murder finds Hirokazu Kore-eda abandoning the warmth of his recent family dramas (“Still Walking,” “After the Storm”) in favor of an ice-cold legal thriller that pedagogically dismantles the death penalty.
