The Incident

Jiken

Japan

1978

138 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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SCR Shohei Ooka, Kaneto Shindô

CAST Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ōtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsunehiko Watase, Shinsuke Ashida, Hisaya Morishige, Junko Natsu, Kô Nishimura, Nobuko Otowa, Shin Saburi, Asao Sano, Tetsurô Tanba, Kei Yamamoto

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, is found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda’s trial, a complex story unfolds. Directed by Nomura Yoshitaro, an expert in the suspense and mystery genre, The Incident is a study in unrestrained passion and jealousy. —YesAsia

Director

Yoshitaro Nomura

Yoshitaro Nomura, Japanese film director (b. April 23, 1919, Tokyo, Japan—d. April 8, 2005, Tokyo), pioneered the film noir genre in Japanese cinema. The son of film director Hotei Nomura, Yoshitaro Nomura signed with the Shochiku film studio when he was 22 years old and made his directorial debut with Hato (Pigeon) in 1953. Though he made samurai dramas and musicals, he was best known for his film noirs, including his masterpiece Suna no utsuwa (1974; Castle of Sand), a thriller that follows the investigation of a murdered police officer; it was considered among the finest films ever made in Japan. —Britannica