I Just Didn't Do It
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| I Just Didn't Do It | |
|---|---|
 Japanese poster art | |
| Directed by | Masayuki Suo |
| Produced by | Shintaro Horikawa Yoshino Sasaki Daisuke Sekiguchi |
| Written by | Masayuki Suo |
| Music by | Yoshikazu Suo |
| Cinematography | Naoki Kayano |
| Editing by | Junichi Kikuchi |
| Distributed by | Pony Canyon |
| Released | January 20, 2007 |
| Running time | 143 min. |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
I Just Didn't Do It (それでもボクはやってない Soredemo boku wa yattenai) is a 2007 Japanese film written and directed by Masayuki Suo.
[edit] Plot
Teppei Kaneko is an ordinary young man just getting started on his path as an adult. One day he travels to his first job interview but is stopped by police and accused of groping a young schoolgirl on the train. He denies this completely, but his pleas fall on deaf ears.
The prosecutor in the case ignores Teppei's explanations and he is arraigned for trial. In the face of a Japanese court system that finds 99.99% of people accused of crimes guilty he chooses to keep the faith that his innocence will somehow save him. He hires a veteran defense lawyer named Arakawa and his assistant Sudo, who only agrees to help with the case after a passionate speech by Arakawa about the problems with Japan's legal system.
Meanwhile, Teppei's family and friends join to support him as the Japanese justice system continues to work against him.
[edit] Cast
- Ryo Kase ... Teppei Kaneko
- Asaka Seto ... Riko Sudo, Lawyer
- Kohji Yamamoto ... Tatsuo Saito
- Masako Motai ... Toyoko kaneko
- Koji Yakusho ... Masayoshi Arakawa, Lawyer
- Hirotaro Honda ... Hideo Mitsui
- Yosuke Ishii ... Keizo Hirayama
- Toshiyuki Kitami ... Takashi Miyamoto
- Fumiyo Kohinata ... Shogo Muroyama
- Toru Masuoka ... Seiichiro Tamura
- Ken Mitsuishi ... Mitsuru Sada
- Ryosuke Ohtani
- Toshinori Omi
- Nao Omori ... Koji Yamada
- Shinya Owada ... Toshio Hiroyasu
- Misa Shimizu
- Daikichi Sugawara
- Ranran Suzuki ... Yoko Doi
- Miako Tadano
- Hiromasa Taguchi
- Choei Takahashi ... Masayoshi Arakawa
- Naoto Takenaka
- Tetsushi Tanaka ... Akira Ahamada
- Yu Tokui ... Seiji Nishimura
- Miyu Yagyu ... Toshiko Furukawa
- Kenichi Yajima
- Hiroshi Yamamoto ... Satoshi Kitao
[edit] External links
- I Just Didn't Do It review at Variety
