Two courtrooms, two careers, and one buried connection anchor Ichikei's Crow The Movie, Akira Tanaka's 2023 Japanese drama built around a judge and a lawyer whose separate cases turn out to be quietly linked.
What is Ichikei's Crow The Movie about?
Two years after leaving his post at Tokyo's first criminal court, judge Michio Iruma is now working in Setouchi, in Okayama Prefecture, where he is handling an injury case that touches Japan's youngest-ever Minister of Defense. Not far away, in a neighboring town, lawyer Chizuru Sakama — working under a program that lets judges gain outside legal experience — is building a case involving a large local company. The two proceedings look unrelated on the surface, arguments in different courtrooms about different people, but a hidden thread eventually pulls them together. The film blends procedural detail with comic timing and mystery pacing rather than staying in one register for its full 120 minutes.
About the cast
The cast is led by Yutaka Takenouchi and Haru Kuroki alongside Osamu Mukai, Takumi Saitoh, Tokio Emoto, Nanase Nishino, Fumiyo Kohinata, and Ikusaburo Yamazaki, playing the judges, lawyers, and staff who populate the film's two parallel legal worlds.
Context & significance
Director Akira Tanaka works across drama, comedy, and mystery in a story that treats the courtroom as a setting for character as much as procedure, following the film's judge and lawyer protagonists as their separate professional lives edge toward each other. The film extends a legal-drama premise built around Japan's judicial exchange system, in which judges temporarily step outside the bench to practice as lawyers before returning to it.
Watching Ichikei's Crow The Movie on Ktime
Ichikei's Crow The Movie streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers follow the original Japanese dialogue with Farsi subtitles or watch a fully dubbed Farsi version instead. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start streaming, and the film's page — including this background — can be read without signing in at all. K-Time's Farsi-first catalogue makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers to find Japanese procedural dramas like this one alongside the rest of its lineup.