Movie: Confessions of a Dog
Romaji: Pochi no kokuhaku
Japanese: ポチの告白
Genre: Crime/Drama
Director: Gen Takahashi
Writer: Gen Takahashi, Yu Terasawa
Producer: Isao Kodaka, Terukazu Sato, Gen Takahashi
Cinematographer: Masahide Iioka, Ryuji Ishikura
Release Date: January 24, 2009 (Japan)
Runtime: 195 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Cast:
Shun Sugata - Takeda
Harumi Inoue - Chiyoko Takeda
Takayoshi Arai
Honoka Asada - Nana
Tadao Fujimura
Ikki Funaki
Kunihiko Ida - Kitamura
Gen Idemitsu - Mie
Yasunari Kawabata
Junichi Kawamoto - Kusama
Yuki Kazamatsuri
Junsuke Kinoshita
Gambino Kobayashi
Plot:
Violence, illegal pay-offs, drugs, intimidation – all things that you would relate to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia, but Gen Takahashi’s epic 3-hour exposé introduces us to the most dangerous gang on the streets – Japanese Law Enforcement. Takeda (Shun Sugata) is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he’s promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile renegade investigator Kusama (Junichi Kawamoto) must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police. What will happen if both these men listen to their consciences?
Too controversial to receive a theatrical release in Japan Confessions of a Dog has instead been distributed out of Hong Kong and has won critical praise from around the globe at festival screenings.
External links:
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General:
Format.......: Matroska
File Size....: 2235,71 MiB
Duration.....: 3h 12mn
Bitrate......: 1 620 Kbps
Subtitles....: English .SRT, English .idx/sub
Source.......: DVD9
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Video:
Video Format......: AVC
Video Codec.......: x264 - core 114 r1913 5fd3dce
Bitrate...........: 1 395 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 25.000 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 16:9
Resolution........: 720x400
Audio #1:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 192 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Japanese
