12人の優しい日本人 (1991): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1991, 12人の優しい日本人 is a komödie and drama film directed by Shun Nakahara, running about 118 minutes.

What it’s about. Shun Nakahara directs this comic take on Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic Twelve Angry Men. Just as in that earlier work, this film takes place in a jury room and takes place in real time. The film opens as the jury is about to acquit the defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one bespectacled juror (Kazuyuki Aijima) -- no one is given names in this film -- voices second thoughts. Slowly, like an inversion of Henry Fonda's character in the earlier film, he sets about convincing his fellow jurors -- a group of nice folks who don't like thinking ill of people -- that the defendant is in fact a cold-blooded killer.

Who’s in it. 12人の優しい日本人 stars Sansei Shiomi as Juror #1, Kazuyuki Aijima as Juror #2, Koichi Ueda as Juror #3 and Kouichi Nihei as Juror #4, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch 12人の優しい日本人 page.

If you liked it. Fans of 12人の優しい日本人 tend to enjoy Forrest Gump, Parasite, Das Leben ist schön and Fight Club.