ABSTRACT This paper provides both lawyers and cinema experts with some insights about the depiction of law and criminal justice in films in Japan. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest of the Japanese movie industry towards ‘courtrooms drama’, i.e., films set in tribunals and having lawyers, judges, and prosecutors as main characters: a small ‘Golden Age’ of law as depicted in Japanese cinema. This paper (co-written by a comparative lawyer and a film studies specialist) will address this phenomenon from two perspectives: one from a legal studies and popular culture framework, analyzing how such movies reflect – and at the same time shape – the ‘legal imagination’ in Japan. The other, from film studies, focuses on technical, directorial aspects, to emphasize how authors intend to depict the law and its actors.

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在框架内部，在玻璃后面。日本法律与电影初步调查

摘要本文为律师和电影专家提供了有关日本电影中法律和刑事司法描述的一些见解。近年来，日本电影界越来越关注“法庭戏剧”，即在法庭上放映并以律师，法官和检察官为主要角色的电影：日本电影院。本文（由比较律师和电影研究专家共同撰写）将从两个角度解决这一现象：一个来自法律研究和大众文化框架，分析此类电影如何反映（同时形成）“合法”在日本的“想象力”。另一项电影研究则侧重于技术和导演方面，以强调作者打算如何描绘法律及其行为者。