- Movie: Solomon’s Perjury 1: Suspicion
- Romaji: Solomon no Gisho Zenpen Jiken
- Japanese: ソロモンの偽証 前篇・事件
- Director: Izuru Narushima
- Writer: Miyuki Miyabe (novel), Katsuhiko Manabe
- Producer: Shuhei Akita, Takashi Yajima
- Cinematographer: Junichi Fujisawa
- Release Date: March 7, 2015
- Runtime: 121 min.
- Genre: Suspense / Mystery / School
- Distributor: Shochiku
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
On Christmas morning, Ryoko (Ryoko Fujino) and Kenichi (Koki Maeda) go to school and discover a dead boy covered in snow. The deceased boy is Ryoko’s classmate Takuya (Ayumu Mochizuki). The police determine that Takuya committed suicide and his parents agree with the police report. Rumors though quickly spread about Takuya’s death. Ryoko and Principle Masao (Fumiyo Kohinata) then receive anonymous notes. The notes claim that the sender witnessed three students, including Shunji (Hiroya Shimizu), throw Takuya off of the rooftop of a school building.
To protect the students, the police and the school hide the anonymous notes, but a reporter receives one of the notes. The situation then becomes uncontrollable. A student dies in a car accident and the other students become increasingly unsettled by the unknown. Ryoko decides to hold a trial by their peers to uncover the truth.
Notes
- Based on the novel “Solomon no Gisho” by Miyuki Miyabe (published from October, 2002 to November, 2011 in Novel Magazine Shosetsu Shincho).
- Filming began June 24, 2014 and finishes September, 2014. School trial scenes begin filming in August, 2014.
- Related titles:
- Solomon’s Perjury 1: Suspicion | Solomon no Gisho Zenpen Jiken (2015)
- Solomon’s Perjury 2: Judgment | Solomon no Gisho Kohen Saiban (2015)
- Solomon’s Perjury | Solromonui Wijeung (JTBC / 2016)
Cast
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Ryoko Fujino | Mizuki Itagaki | Anna Ishii | Hiroya Shimizu | Miu Tomita |
Ryoko Fujino | Kazuhiko Kanbara | Juri Miyake | Shunji Ooide | Matsuko Asai |
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Koki Maeda | Ayumu Mochizuki | Reika Nishihata | Jiei Wakabayashi | Naritada Nishimura |
Kenichi Noda | Takuya Kashiwagi | Mariko Kurata | Yukio Sakisaka | Kosei Inoue |
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Mikio Kato | Arata Ishikawa | Kuranosuke Sasaki | Yui Natsukawa | Hiromi Nagasaku |
Yutaro Hashida | Mitsuru Iguchi | Tsuyoshi Fujino | Kuniko Fujino | Mirai Miyake |
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Haru Kuroki | Fumiyo Kohinata | Machiko Ono |
Emiko Moriuchi | Masao Tsuzaki | Ryoko Fujino (adult) |
Additional Cast Members:
- Tokihide Wakabayashi – Yukio Sakisaka
- Tamae Ando – Takagi
- Yutaka Matsushige – Teacher Kitao
- Houka Kinoshita – Teacher Kusuyama
- Miwako Ichikawa – Minae Kakiuchi
- Sotaro Tanaka – Etsuo Mogi
- Tomoko Tabata – Reiko Sasaki
- Nobue Iketani – Toshie Azai
- Muga Tsukaji – Yohei Tsukaji
- Karen Iwata – Saori Kawahara
- Noriko Eguchi – Sachiko Ode
- Hajime Inoue – Principal Okano
- Yuya Takagawa – Masaru Oide
- Miho Nakanishi – School Nurse Ozaki
- Ichirota Miyagawa – Noriyuki Kashiwagi
- Kyusaku Shimada – Ryosuke Kono
- Kimiko Yo – Motoko Ueno