Torao

[Played as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] Kazuya Murayama's engaging, factually based, well-acted, realistic, gloomy, 97-minute film in which a tenacious, passionate Tokyo university student (Sakiko Kato) ignores the fact that the statute of limitations has passed to team up with a retired Japanese detective (Torao Nishimura), who had 30 years experience on the job and was removed from a murder investigation 20 years earlier, to investigate the cold case of a swimming coach (Ayano Ogata) discovered in a field in the city of Kanazawa in 1992 after the uncharged, murdering coach (Tomoya Kono/Masaaki Kono) returned the victim's car to the swimming club.
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