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Monday, October 29, 2018

From Palme d'or Winner Hirokazu Kore-Eda Comes "THE THIRD MURDER", a Gripping Legal Thriller on BD/DVD on 11/13




"Insistent, gripping." -- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times


"Hauntingly beautiful." -- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal


"A crime drama like no other." -- Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice


FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SHOPLIFTERS AND AFTER THE STORM, Palme d'Or winner Hirokazu Kore-Eda, COMES THIS gripping legal thriller, WINNER OF SIX JAPANESE ACADEMY AWARDS


THE THIRD MURDER


Street Date: November 13, 2018
DVD SRP: $24.95

Film Movement's DVD Release of the Acclaimed New York Times Critic's Pick Includes a "Making of" Featurette and "A Gentle Night"
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2017 for "Best Short Film"

WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER


Following its critically-acclaimed 2018 theatrical release, Film Movement bringsKore-eda's THE THIRD MURDER to home audiences with a loaded DVD being released just prior to the theatrical release of Shoplifters, winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or winner at Cannes in 2018.

In this compelling, slow-burning thriller, high-powered attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi (Kōji Yakusho), though he does so with reluctance, knowing that the man already provided a full confession and had been previously convicted of murder thirty years earlier.

But as Shigemori digs deeper into the evidence and hears Misumi's own conflicting testimony, the once confident lawyer begins to doubt whether his client could be the murderer after all. A striking departure in genre and tone from Kore-eda's typical family-oriented dramas, THE THIRD MURDER is a gripping and morally complex crime procedural that incisively explores the meaning of truth and innocence.


BONUS FEATURES
Bonus Short Film - A Gentle Night(Directed by Qiu Yang | China | 15 minutes) In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gentle into this good night. Winner of the "Best Short Film" Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2017.
Making-of featurette
Message from the Cast

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD
Running Time: 124 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Widescreen
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/Stereo 2.0
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

About Film Movement
Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide.  Film Movement's theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, Sergio Corbucci and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.


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