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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 19, 2014

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

TV Movie, Crime, Drama, Mystery

User Score

40%

Original Title

黒い福音

Production Companies

TV Asahi

Director

Kan Ishibashi

Description

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.