Synopsis

Airs March 28th on NHK BS Premium, and May 16th on BS NHK.
 
Based on the novel of the same name by Nakayama Shichiri, this film is a legal mystery that questions the relationship between AI and the humans who use it.
Rookie judge Koenji Madoka is assigned to verify “Hoshin,” an AI system being experimentally introduced in the courthouse.
After feeding in data from past trials, Hōshin instantly generates written judgments that are indistinguishable from those painstakingly crafted by human judges, producing the exact same rulings.
The judges welcome the improved efficiency, but Madoka cannot shake her sense of caution toward Hoshin.
Amid this, Madoka is assigned, alongside the soon-to-retire judge Hiba, to a case in which an eighteen-year-old boy stabbed his father to death.
When they have Hoshin simulate the verdict before the trial, the AI instantly delivers a ruling of the death penalty.
 
Yoshine Kyoko portrays Madoka, who was raised by her grandmother, a renowned judge, and now works as a rookie judge at the Tokyo District Court.
To Madoka, her grandmother was both someone she deeply respected and someone who placed a heavy sense of pressure on her.
Madoka is astonished by Hoshin’s processing power, yet she harbors a strong sense of caution toward allowing AI to be involved in verdicts that determine the course of human lives.