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Impossibility Defense

Impossibility Defense

Mystery · Thriller · Crime · 2018

At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of suggestion and the arrangement of events. He accepts these requests, all the while privately mocking the foolishness of those whose unwise wishes he grants.

Movie details

Impossibility Defense

“Perfect Crime”

2018 Mystery · Thriller · Crime 1h 46m

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TMDB

7.2 / 10

Community rating

At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of suggestion and the arrangement of events. He accepts these requests, all the while privately mocking the foolishness of those whose unwise wishes he grants.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over Impossibility Defense?

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Taste neighbourhood

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Koji Shiraishi

Written by

Junpei Yamaoka · Koji Shiraishi

Tori Matsuzaka

Tori Matsuzaka

Tadashi Usobuki

Erika Sawajiri

Erika Sawajiri

Tomoko Tada

Mackenyu

Mackenyu

Asao Momose

Shotaro Mamiya

Shotaro Mamiya

Takeru Kawabata

T

Tet Wada

Yoshiki Akai

Tetsuya Sugaya

Tetsuya Sugaya

Ryohei Wakamatsu

Sae Okazaki

Sae Okazaki

Natsumi Maekawa

Court is in session

Put Impossibility Defense on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.