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Dark Figure of Crime
Why this pick
Its sustained encounters between a detective and a manipulative murderer echo The Devil’s Path’s unnerving interview-based tension, moral ambiguity, and procedural focus.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2013 2h 8m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Creepy
Why this pick
A quietly escalating investigation turns everyday suburban space oppressive, matching The Devil’s Path’s patient pacing and fascination with concealed cruelty.
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The Third Murder
Why this pick
This measured legal mystery shares the film’s reliance on shifting testimony and uneasy conversations, where certainty about guilt and motive keeps receding.
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The Blood of Wolves
Why this pick
Also directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, it offers a similarly grim, unsentimental view of institutional corruption and violent moral compromise, with more hard-boiled momentum.
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Cold Fish
Why this pick
Its true-crime-inflected descent into ordinary people’s capacity for brutality carries the same corrosive atmosphere and refusal to make violence comfortably distant.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Takayuki Yamada
Shuichi Fujii
Lily Franky
Takao Kimura
Pierre Taki
Junji Sudo
Chizuru Ikewaki
Yoko Fujii