The Snow White Murder Case

2014 Japanese film

Mao Inoue
Gō Ayano
Nanao
Nobuaki Kaneko
Erena Ono
Mitsuki Tanimura
Shōta Sometani
Yoko Akino

CinematographyGen KobayashiMusic byGoro YasukawaDistributed byShochiku Co., Ltd.

Release date

March 29, 2014 (2014-03-29) (Japan)

Running time

126 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapaneseBox office¥1 billion (US$8.6 million)

The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件, Shirayuki hime Satsujin Jiken) is a 2014 Japanese mystery thriller film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Yuji Akahoshi (Gou Ayano) receives a phone call from an old high school friend, Risako Kano (Misako Renbutsu). She tells him that her co-worker at a cosmetics company was stabbed to death and then doused in flames. Yuji Akahoshi decides to interview workers at the company and others that knew the victim, Noriko Miki (Nanao), for his television show.

Yuji Akahoshi soon discovers that another co-worker, Miki Shirono (Mao Inoue) disappeared the same night of the murder. She was last seen running to the train station shortly after Noriko Miki's death. Yuji attempts to unravel the mystery of Miki Shirono.^[3]

Cast

Mao Inoue as Miki Shirono
Gō Ayano as Yuji Akahoshi
Nanao as Noriko Miki
Nobuaki Kaneko as Satoshi Shinoyama
Erena Ono as Eimi Mitsushima
Mitsuki Tanimura as Minori Maetani (Miki's friend from university)
Shihori Kanjiya as Yuko Tanimura (Miki's childhood friend)
Shunsuke Daito as Shingo Eto (Miki's ex-middle school friend)
Misako Renbutsu as Risako Kano
Shōta Sometani as Hasegawa
Dankan as Kozaburo Shirono (Miki's father)
Yoko Akino as atsuki Shirono (Miki's mother)
Mao Miyaji as Mayama

Music

"All Alone in the World" performed by Serizawa Brothers (Tsukemen)

Reception

The film earned ¥1 billion (US$8,646,060) in Japan.^[4]^[5]

Patryk Czekaj, in a review on Twitch Film, called the film "one of the most compelling crime thrillers to come out of Japan in the last few years".^[6]

Awards and nominations

Year	Organization	Award	Recipient	Result
2015	38th Japan Academy Prize	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Mao Inoue	Nominated

References

^ 白ゆき姫殺人事件 (2014). allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
^ Patryk Czekaj (24 April 2014). "Udine 2014: Twitch's Top Ten Most Anticipated Films". Twitch Film. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
^ "Film review: The Snow White Murder Case shows many sides of a murder mystery". 19 November 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
^ "２０１４年（平成２６年）全国映画概況" (PDF). eiren.org (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
^ "Japan Box Office April 26–27, 2014". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
^ Patryk Czekaj (May 2014). "Udine 2014 Review: THE SNOW WHITE MURDER CASE Gives A Stunning New Angle To Familiar Thriller Formula". Twitch Film. Retrieved 5 May 2014.