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Sir Tim Hitchens and Tony Rayns on Hirokazu Kore-eda's film The Third Murder and the death penalty in Japan

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Former UK Ambassador to Tokyo Sir Tim Hitchens and East Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns introduce a FLJS Films screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 film The Third Murder
Former UK Ambassador to Tokyo Sir Tim Hitchens and East Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns introduce a FLJS Films screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 film The Third Murder.

Sir Tim Hitchens shares his personal experience and insights on popular attitudes towards the death penalty in Japan and makes a stirring call to arms to challenge countries in which the death penalty persists.

Tony Rayns discusses the film's background and genesis, appraising its place in the body of Kore-eda's work, for which he will be regarded as one of the greats of Japanese cinema. The talk illuminates the key themes and moral ambiguities of the film, including the complexities of familial relationships, the relativity of truth, and the tensions between societal pressures and the nature of the human spirit.



Sir Tim Hitchens is the President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a former Director-General of the Economic and Consular at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Sir Tim has over thirty years of experience as a diplomat, and was most recently British Ambassador to Tokyo.

Tony Rayns is a film critic, commentator, festival programmer, screenwriter, and one of the world’s leading experts on Asian cinema. He has written extensively for Sight & Sound, books about Seijun Suzuki, Wong Kar-wai and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and has been awarded the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation for services to Japanese cinema.

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Episode Information

Series
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
People
Tim Hitchens
Tony Rayns
Keywords
japanese studies
japan
Death Penalty
film studies
film making
asian politics
cinema
Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Date Added: 08/05/2019
Duration: 00:22:50

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