A special review – this film, released in Japanese theaters earlier this year, was shown with English subtitles on my recent All Nippon Airways flight to Tokyo.

What’s It About? Haunted by a classmate’s mysterious death and dissatisfied with the police investigation, Ryoko Fujino decides to hold a trial at her school to find out if one of her fellow students is a murderer.

STRAIGHT UP: Like a two-hour trailer for a different, better movie. 1.5/5

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