The Journalist
2019 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan
Young journalist Erika Yoshioka works at Tokyo Metropolitan News where her father committed suicide under suspicion of falsifying news. Yoshioka's boss Mr. Jinya entrusts her with investigating a government plan to establish a new university that has arrived by anonymous fax. Her research leads to Mr. Kanzaki a Cabinet Official who soon commits suicide. The investigation next takes her to Takumi Sugiyama, an earnest official in the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office. Plagued with doubts over Kanzaki's death, Sugiyama agrees to work with Yoshioka to uncover the scandal that may derail their careers.
Direction Michihito Fujii
Cast Shim Eun-kyung · Tôri Matsuzaka · Tsubasa Honda · Amane Okayama · Tomohiro Kaku · Seiya Osada · Hina Miyano · Tsutomu Takahashi
Soundtrack Tarô Iwashiro
Screenplay Roba Shimori · Akihiko Takaishi · Michihito Fujii · Isoko Mochizuki
Cinematography Keisuke Imamura
Original title Shinbun kisha
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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