The Gentle 12

– Shun Nakahara directs this comic take on Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic Twelve Angry Men. Just as in th..

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Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 56 Minutes
Release Year:
1991
Original Name:
12人の優しい日本人
The Gentle 12
The Gentle 12 (1991) - Also known as 12人の優しい日本人

Shun Nakahara directs this comic take on Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic Twelve Angry Men. Just as in that earlier work, this film takes place in a jury room and takes place in real time. The film opens as the jury is about to acquit the defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one bespectacled juror (Kazuyuki Aijima) -- no one is given names in this film -- voices second thoughts. Slowly, like an inversion of Henry Fonda's character in the earlier film, he sets about convincing his fellow jurors -- a group of nice folks who don't like thinking ill of people -- that the defendant is in fact a cold-blooded killer.

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14 Dec 1991

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Japanese

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Awards:

3 wins.

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Internet Movie Database:
6.9/10

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