60 Gohan Taisakushitsu is about 3 people; a veteran detective who is near retirement, a lawyer and a prosecutor who are in this new Misjudgement Countermeasure unit which was created for political reasons to see if anyone on death row is possibly innocent.
+ Its a WOWOW police show which means its better than your typical talento police show.
+ Tachi Hiroshi aka Abunai Deka is great as the scene stealing veteran who extracted a confession out of an innocent man and has never been the same since.
+ I enjoyed the two supporting characters and they grew on me.
+ I liked the true reason of unit's existence.
- The whole police and prosecutors working to manipulate evidence and force convictions trope is getting a bit tired for me.
THE UGLY
- There is one stabbing scene in the last episode that had me squirming in my seat.
SUMMARY
Very watchable but it just doesn't reach must watch level for me. Thanks to HPriest for subbing this and if you are after a pretty good crime investigation dorama that dark, I recommend 60 Gohan Taisakushitsu.
For me this is one of the most interesting and intense commentaries on the Justice system (not just the Japanese justice system). Its systemic manipulation (some overt, some just everyone in the chain seeking self-preservation), the circles of hell punishment meted out to those who don't toe the line....and most importantly, that correcting an injustice does not automatically produce justice...it only re-enters the same system again with all its faults still intact.
ReplyDeleteThe last point is why I suspect many will not rate this drama. It is uncomfortable and doesn't fit drama conventions.
That moment where it was revealed that the role Haruna Misuzu had been given was to essentially fast-tracked the death sentence, for her perceived fault of not sentencing suspects to the death sentence, that is some "Room 101" soul crushing.
60 Gohan Taisakushitsu may be imperfect, but this drama didn't shy away from the dark and almost unsolvable. I contrast this to 99.9. A show with much to like, but a show that knows there is something amiss in that 0.1%....and who's take is: this case may be one of those 0.1%. Not that all the collision, corruption and steamrolling (that it itself shows) may mean the 99.9% is a fallacy and full of false convictions.