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After a traffic accident on a mountain road, Enne (Rei Sato), who had nightmares about losing his parents and younger brother, has an ominous premonition. A family trip was coming up in a few days, and they were planning a summer resort in the mountains. She persuaded her father, Kosuke (Hironobu Nomura), to stop traveling, but Kosuke did not listen. Meanwhile, a resident of the same apartment tells her that the traffic accident she dreamed of has already happened.

(Screened at the 2013 Raindance Film Festival) Controversial writer director Gen Takahashi returns with “Court of Zeus”, a courtroom drama which aims to lift the lid on corruption in the Japanese judiciary system. Gen is of course no stranger to such themes, having painted a less than favourable picture of the country’s police force in his superb 2006 offering “Confessions of a Dog”, a film which for many years struggled to earn the domestic release it undoubtedly deserved. Working again with director of photography Ryuji Ishikura and composer Jun Murakami, who scored his creatively morbid 2008 horror “Goth”, the film is another fiercely incendiary piece from the director, though this time one with a slightly different approach. Starring Hijiri Kojima (“The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai”), Shun Shioya (“Tokyo Noir”), Hironobu Nomura (“The Go Master”) and Jun Kawamoto, the film follows Kano, a fast-rising young judge and the perfect product of the court system,...