Japanese film director Masayuki Suo, the man who made the origina Shall We Dance has just made a new film that deals with a much more political issue; I Didn’t Do It is the story of a man who fights Japan’s notoriously ridged system agains a charge of groping a woman on a suway. The good people over at yahoo.com give us more on the story:
I Just Didn’t Do It” is about the legal battle of a man mistakenly accused of groping a woman on a jam-packed commuter train in Tokyo, taking aim at a court system with a suspiciously high 99 percent conviction rate. “I had to make this film because of the outrage … that I felt as a Japanese over the injustice in this country,” Suo said..”I simply couldn’t look the other way.”
Suo’s latest work stands out. The movie has been a top box-office draw in Japan since its Jan. 20 release. “The film deals with a rare theme, but everyone can relate to the topic, because groping is a widespread problem.
Good for Suo for putting his outrage into a positive outlet like filmmaking. When someone is upset or outraged about an injustice it is always a better idea to act constructively against what they are angry about, to get even you have to get active in your art.
Looking at the box office returns it just goes to show that passion pays off.
