Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Director:

Masayuki Suo

Writer:

Masayuki Suo

Stars:

Ryo Kase, Asaka Seto, Kôji Yamamoto

19 wins & 12 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ryo Kase	...	Teppei Kaneko
Asaka Seto	...	Riko Sudo, Lawyer
Kôji Yamamoto	...	Tatsuo Saito
Masako Motai	...	Toyoko kaneko
Kôji Yakusho	...	Masayoshi Arakawa, Lawyer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hirotarô Honda	...	Hideo Mitsui
Yosuke Ishii	...	Keizo Hirayama
Toshiyuki Kitami	...	Takashi Miyamoto
Fumiyo Kohinata	...	Shogo Muroyama
Tôru Masuoka	...	Seiichiro Tamura
Ken Mitsuishi	...	Mitsuru Sada
Nao Ohmori	...	Koji Yamada
Shin'ya Ohwada	...	Toshio Hiroyasu
Toshinori Omi
Hidemi Sekiguchi	...	Supporter

Storyline

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [jp] (English)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

20 January 2007 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Even So, I Didn't Do It

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Altamira Pictures Inc., Fuji Television Network, Toho Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

143 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Japan's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

User Reviews

Welcome Back, Mr Suo

Japan's foreign-film entry to the 2008 Academy Awards is a doozy and arrives from one of the country's preeminent filmmakers, Masayuki Suo. In his first film since 1996's "Shall We Dansu?", he brings the same discriminating eye back to Japan's cultural and social norms and in "I Just Didn't Do It", zeros in on its oppressively rigid judicial system. Observed on a level that can only be described as stark realism, a true departure from Suo's august social comedies and a distinct legal procedural going by its narrative trajectory of showing the inciting incident, investigation and to the courtroom in its various stages of due process – Teppei Kaneko (Ryo Kase) is accused of molesting a schoolgirl on his way to a job interview, subsequently coerced by weary detectives to accept the charge and pay the fine instead of pursuing vindication – a system that Suo notes as the reason for Japan's almost perfect conviction rate and institutionalised prejudice against the accused.