| The Journalist | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Michihito Fujii | ||||||||||
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| Story: | Isoko Mochizuki | ||||||||||
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| Music: | Taro Iwashiro | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Keisuke Imamura | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Tatsuma Furukawa | ||||||||||
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| Distributor: | ÆON Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 113 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||||||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||||||||
is a 2019 Japanese drama film loosely based on the 2017 book of the same name by Isoko Mochizuki, directed by Michihito Fujii. It received 6 Japan Academy Prize nominations and won three, including Picture of the Year, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.[1]
On January 13, 2022, a drama version of The Journalist was released on Netflix.[2]
Erika Yoshioka, a young journalist, 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 Sugihara, an earnest official in the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office. Plagued with doubts over Kanzaki's death, Sugihara agrees to work with Yoshioka to uncover the scandal that may derail their careers.