Reika KAMATA 鎌田麗香
Junichi SAITO 齊藤潤一
眠る村
Sleeping Village
Nippon Docs ¾
In 1961, a spectacular criminal case shocks Japan: at what became known as the “Nabari Poison Wine” incident, five people lose their lives at a village social gathering. One of the attendants, Masaru OKUNISHI, is made out as the main suspect. Rumor has it that he wanted to kill his wife and his lover in order to end his extra-marital affair. After being questioned by the police for days, he signs a confession, only to withdraw it soon afterwards. Nonetheless, he is sentenced to death and all pleas for a retrial are denied. SLEEPING VILLAGE documents the tragic story of this case, the traumatizing effects of which still linger on today.
眠る村
Nemuru mura
日本 2018
96 分
About Reika KAMATA
鎌田麗香
Reika KAMATA was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1985. She studied at Meiji University and began working as a police and justice reporter with Tokai Television in 2008. While working there, she made the documentary films TWO DEATH ROW INMATES (2015) and SLEEPING VILLAGE (with Junichi SAITO, 2018 / NC ‘20).
About Junichi SAITO
齊藤潤一
Junichi SAITO was born in 1967 and studied at Kansai University. He started working at Tokai Television in 1992 and has been directing documentary films since 2005, with a focus on criminal cases and the Japanese judicial system. Numerous films that he directed or produced received awards, his documentary THE HEISEI DILEMMA (2010) was shown at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival.