Prepare to discuss this movie from the image of a canary.
The first canary was the deceased’s daughter, Sakie Yamanaka. Her father raised her since she was a child and sexually assaulted her all the time. Her father was her cage, and she was his father’s plaything. Killing her father with Takashi Misumi was her way to escape the cage and regain a new life.
The second canary is the suspect Sansumi Takashi. The cage he was in more than 30 years ago was called loan sharking. After he was unemployed, he borrowed loan sharking. The borrower is both his helper and the prison for his free life in the future. Loan usury means that only interest is always paid for making money for others. So he killed the debt collector and escaped from the prison.
The senior Misumi who killed the debt collector didn't get his freedom. He went to a prison called a prison, where he had food and bed without paying the rent. This would be missed to some extent after he was released from prison.
After being released from prison, Takashi Misumi came to work in the deceased’s factory. He learned the secret of the fraudulent money-making machine and used it to blackmail the deceased. This time he finally turned over and became the master of the canary, but until he met him The daughter of the deceased...
The third canary is Shigemori, a lawyer played by Masaharu Fukuyama, and others in the court.
In a world of fog and lies, as stated in the film, compared to these judicial practitioners, truth is like blind people touching the elephant again and again. Everyone will firmly and fiercely tell others based on the part of the world he touches. Arguing about what the elephant’s true face should be like, and even adding more vinegar, only talking about the part that is good for you.
In the end, it was discovered that the judges, prosecutors, and lawyers were actually people on the same boat, and to some extent they were just making a living. And this boat can also be pronounced as a cage.
This is the suffering of being born as a human being. Since being born as a human, one must be coerced by the flesh to make a living, to consider this body. Most of the time, truth and justice regress into the second step, the third step and even more. Secondary thing.
For all other people, retreating to the secondary, what is exchanged and discarded in the cage can be other kinds, many, many.
Finally, I made a comment on the mainland version of the title translation. The good third murder was called a third-degree suspect. After reading it, I could only say hello to the translator with a question mark.
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