Judge! (Japanese Movie)

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Movie: Judge!
Romaji: Jyajji!
Japanese: ジャッジ！
Director: Akira Nagai
Writer: Yoshimitsu Sawamoto
Producer:
Cinematographer: Naoki Noda
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Runtime: 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Distributor: Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Kiichiro Ota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) has recently begun work at an advertising agency. He is then forced to participate in the world's biggest TV Advertising Festival as a judge. There's parties held there every night and Kiichiro is paired with Hikari Ota (Keiko Kitagawa), who shares the same family name, to act like husband and wife there.

At the festival, Kiichiro learns that if he doesn't allow the CM from his agency to win the grand prize then he will be fired. Directors from all over the world are gathered at the festival and the judges work within a hotel that is completely closed off. The directors scheme and bargain to make their agency win the grand prize.

Rival Japanese judges appear in front of Kiichiro.

Notes

Filming began in early August, 2013 and finished September 7, 2013.

Cast



Satoshi Tsumabuki	Keiko Kitagawa	Lily Franky	Kyoka Suzuki	Etsushi Toyokawa
Kiichiro Ota	Hikari Ota	Kagami	Haruka Kizawa	Ichiro Otaki



YosiYosi Arakawa	Tetsuji Tamayama	Hyunri	Yoji Tanaka	Morio Kazama
Carlos	Tatsuya	Harada	Izawa	President of Gentsu



Denden	Kenta Hamano	Ayumi Ito	Ryo Kase	Yuichi Kimura
President of Chikuwadou	President of Chikuwadou's son	Kiichiro Ota's former girlfriend	employee of Gentsu	CM director



Morio Agata	Iyo Matsumoto	Kotaro Shiga	Tokio Emoto	Seizo Fukumoto
public relations department head	employee of Gentsu	karaoke manager	karaoke clerk	mysterious old man

Naoto Takenaka

man at bar

Additional Cast Members:

Yuri Ogino

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Tammy Oct 13 2018 2:18 am band name is ‘sakanakution’ (サカナクション)

bonbon Apr 14 2018 12:25 pm Does anybody know who is the band that scoring in ending theme song? I failed on finding them neither in google nor youtube. Is there any japanese band called something like 'sakanakutsuyoso'? Thats what i've got from translating the katakana to romaji (if im not wrong) the scoring from the credit part. Much appreciation for anybody who could answer my curiosity. Arigatou?

Mary Jane Apr 27 2015 7:59 am Yeah finish watched that movie 2 times already it was very funny!!!

help! Feb 25 2015 10:34 pm Can somebody please tell me the name and artist of the piano song that keeps playing??? I love it and want it. Help please!!!

pastaman Dec 12 2014 8:10 am I've just watched this movie and it was entertaining and funny ! I don't mind the stereotypes, because they were on purpose... And Keiko and the male lead did really well :-) Maybe she was a bit to kind at the end ;-)

kei Nov 23 2014 2:12 am What is the name and artist for the piano song?

kuromitsu Nov 11 2014 10:52 am This is a great, funny movie all throughout, with a really simple story. The cast is really mostly gaijin (only the first 7 actors above are actually prominent, and only 4 have major roles), and they're not really stellar actors, but they're not hammy or cringeworthy so it's fine.

The only "racist" part about the movie was of a few characters (including a couple of Japanese) playing with the foreigner's idea of a Japanese stereotype. But really, everyone was corrupt to a certain extent: that was the point. Political correctness was really the least of their problems.

Egg Sep 03 2014 8:02 pm This movie was awful, it just seemed like Toyota used it to show people how amazing some stupid commercial they produced was. Ok the beginning was funny and had hope but as soon as any non-japanese actor was involved it became weirdly racist and polluted by bad acting. I get it was supposed to be a comedy and that's probably why stereotypes were extreme but yeah I wasn't laughing...

Eee Bee Feb 23 2014 1:43 am Lame. So biased to leave out the "non-japanese" talent's names involved with this project

girlstrike Feb 03 2014 10:01 am looking forward for this movie.... they look good together...

keikonite Dec 21 2013 3:09 am Satoshi & Keiko has a cute chemistry! :) They look so good together!

Anon Nov 26 2013 6:20 pm Beautiful couple. Terrible looking film. #SorryNotSorry

Javanese Sep 30 2013 1:34 am buahahaha, so funny... glad to see tsumabuki again in a comedy

yay! Sep 27 2013 1:49 am OH EM GEE NOW I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGERRRRRRRR!!!! Keiko and Ryo, now Keiko and Satoshi <3

keiko-fan Jul 16 2013 9:13 pm I love these two leads! Satoshi & Keiko! :) I can't wait!

hikari chan Jul 14 2013 12:09 am Great..! Can't wait for next year...! Love you both, Satoshi and Keiko.. :))

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