Shoji to takao
Shoji & Takao: A 44-Year Fight for the Simple Life
- Release Date
- March, 19th, 2011
- Running Time
- 158 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DVCAM,DVD,Digital Betacam
- Screen Size
- SD (4:3)
- Sound Processing
- Stereo
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- IDE Yoko ── Production
- IDE Yoko ── Cinematography
- IDE Yoko ── Editor
- NISHIO Kiyoshi ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
Shoji & Takao Promotion Committee
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
Shoji & Takao Promotion Committee
[ Production Studio ]
Shoji & Takao Promotion Committee
[ Story ]
Sakurai Shoji and Sugiyama Takao were accused in the robbery-murder Fukawa Incident that occurred in 1967 in Ibaraki Prefecture. They continued to insist on their innocence while they were incarcerated, and upon being paroled in 1996 they stepped outside the prison walls for the first time in twenty-nine years. This film documents the fourteen years after these two falsely accused formerdefendants were released on parole. After the film was released, they were found to be not guilty in a retrial in May 2011. Number one in the 2010 ranking of cultural films in Kinema Junpo, recipient of the Mecenet Award at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, and winner of The Bunka-Cho (Agency for Cultural Affairs) Film Awards 2011 Documentary Grand Prize.
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
Busan International Film Festival 2011 Mecenat Award
Dubai International Film Festival 2011 Human Rights Film Network Prize
[ Contact (International) ]
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