Darkness in the Light (2001)

Original title

日本の黒い夏 [冤enzai罪]

Directed by

Kei Kumai

Genre

true crime

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is falsely accused of the Matsumoto sarin attack and must fight to clear his name. The film follows his struggle against public condemnation and the failures of the justice system.

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What happens

Darkness in the Light (Japanese: 日本の黒い夏 [冤enzai罪], Hepburn: Nippon no Kuroi Natsu - Enzai; lit. Black Summer in Japan: False Charges) is a 2001 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai. The screenplay was written by Kumai, who based it on the play NEWS NEWS by Koichi Hiraishi, which was itself based on the documentary What TV Conveyed produced by the broadcasting department of Matsumoto Misugaoka High School in Nagano. All three tell the story of the real-life Matsumoto sarin attack. The film stars Akira Terao as Toshio Kanbe, a man falsely accused of the attack, in addition to Kiichi Nakai, Naomi Hosokawa, Nagiko Tono and Yukiya Kitamura in supporting roles. The film's score was composed by Teizo Matsumura. Darkness in the Light was theatrically released by Nikkatsu on 24 March 2001, in Japan. It was also shown at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival, where Kumai won the Berlinale Camera award for his work on the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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