Scandal (1950 film)

Scandal , Sukyandaru? , aka Shbun is a 1950 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshir Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Shirley Yamaguchi.

Aoye is outraged by this false scandal and plans to sue the magazine. During the subsequent media circus, Aoye is approached by a downandout lawyer, Hiruta Takashi Shimura, who claims to share Aoyes anger with the press. Aoye takes him for his attorney, but Hiruta, desperate for money to cure his daughter with terminal tuberculosis, Masako Yko Katsuragi, accepts a bribe from the editor of the magazine to throw the trial. The trial proceeds badly for the plaintiffs. Struck by the kindness of Aoye and Saijo towards his Masako, and Masakos own disgust at the way he is handling the case, Hiruta becomes ridden with guilt. As the trial draws to an end, Masako dies, convinced that Aoye and Saijo will win the case. On the final day of the trial Hiruta, prodded by his conscience, confesses all and Amour loses the case.Scandal was described by Kurosawa himself as a protest film about the rise of the press in Japan and its habitual confusion of freedom with license. Personal privacy is never respected and the scandal sheets are the worst offenders. ........

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