Impossibility Defence jmovie review

Casting can often times make or break a movie and Japan is not known for casting the best person for a role instead of the most famous face. Impossibility Defence is about a devilish character who has the ability to kill people with the power of suggestion hence Impossibility Defence because you can't charge someone for a murder when you can't prove that they were responsible for it.

This devil character grants the wishes of people who wants someone dead with the requirement that their desire for murder is 'pure'. Impossibility Defence is your typical morality tale where after someone's wish is granted, they found out that there are actually grave consequences or that they don't actually want that person dead.

In this story of the devil granting the wishes of foolish humans is the trying to be hardboiled detective played by Sawajiri Erika. Yes, the Sawajiri of 1 litre of Tears and countless beauty saloon ads.

If the only way to get the money to make this movie was casting her, then I would have said there are plenty of actresses who can do a much better job because it is just so freaking wrong. No amount of posturing and and cigarette smoking and turn Sawajiri into this hardboiled detective who struggles between doing the right thing and doing the right thing.

The movie does not fall apart behind Sawajiri's casting but there's this nagging feeling that a stronger lead to face the devil would have worked better. The stories are interesting but the movie just feels like a setup episode to a long running series. Meh.

I think I got the raws from j-raws long time ago which has since shut down. Anyone know any other website for getting smaller size raws?