The Third Murder -Blu-ray-

Product Description **HIROKAZU KORE-EDA'S SHOPLIFTERS WON THE 2018 PALME D'OR AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL** **WINNER OF 6 JAPANESE ACADEMY AWARDS** **CERTIFIED FRESH ON ROTTEN TOMATOES** **NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK** **FILM COMMENT'S FILM OF THE WEEK** Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. Bonus features include Making-Of featurette and Messages from the Cast. Package includes excerpt from an interview with director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Why-We-Selected, and chapter breaks. Review WINNER - 6 Awards - Awards of the Japanse Academy NOMINATED - 3 Awards - Asian Pacific Screen Awards NOMINATED - Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Toronto Int'l Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Zurich Int'l Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Mumbai Int'l Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - New York Asian Film Festival --- Insistent, gripping... - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (Critic's Pick) Complex, alluringly elusive. --Jonathan Romney, Film Comment (Film of the Week)Hauntingly beautiful... What's remarkable about The Third Murder is its density (so many provocative themes bubbling beneath a placid surface); intensity (conversations between lawyer and client, on opposite sides of the glass, are truly spellbinding); cast of intriguing characters (the factory owner's wife and daughter, the lawyer's own daughter, who shocks him by producing tears of ostensible grief on command); shimmering ambiguity (although the climactic scene, if I read it right, carries intimations of clarity); and formal elegance (the CinemaScope format of Mikiya Takimoto's cinematography gives those detention-center conversations an expansive gravity)...It's the work of a contemporary master who arrives at the philosophical by way of the playful, ironic and lyrical. - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal A crime drama like no other...Does the world need any more reminders that Hirok