Review: 'The Third Murder' sends Japanese master Kore-eda to court. The verdict, however, is mixed
One man savagely attacks another, killing him on the spot then dousing the corpse with gasoline and setting it on fire. Opening a film with a scene like that would be business as usual for any number of directors, but Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda is not one of them.
Kore-eda, who won this year's Cannes Palme d'Or for his latest film, "Shoplifters," is known as Japan's nonpareil humanist filmmaker, not someone who usually
