Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

Overview

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 19, 2014

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

TV Asahi

Cast

Eiko Koike,Hiroshi Takahashi,Yuko Takeuchi,Jinta Nishizawa,Takeshi Masu,Nicholas Pettas,Tamae Oonishi,Akira Otaka,Jun Kunimura,Kenjiro Nashimotoand 29 more

Director

Kan Ishibashi

Writer

Kenichi Onishi,Seicho Matsumoto,Masahiro Yoshimoto

Cinematography

Tsugio Kawaguchi,Satoru Yamashita,Kiyoshi Murase

Music

Kiyoshi Yoshikawa

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3350982