| Clocking in at nearly three hours, this is probably a bit too top heavy for most audiences. But unlike many three-hour-long movies, this actually makes incredibly good use of the lengthy time and develops a good and complex mystery.
This is another adventure of Kosuke Kindaichi, but it is a little different because you aren't even introduced to him until almost half an hour in, and then you don't know who he is for another twenty minutes. It was a bit like Ian Fleming's "The Spy Who Loved Me". In the book James Bond isn't the main character. Rather it is one of his flings. In this, Kindaichi is leading the investigation but the movie centers around the young heir to the family fortune.
This is very much an old school style mystery movie with hidden family secrets, horrifying sins of the past, and plenty of murders, although probably not enough for a modern audience over a three-hour run time. I really enjoyed it, but this is one of my favorite genres. |
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