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The Third Murder: Plot, Cast & Reception

The Third Murder (Japanese: 三度目の殺人, Hepburn: Sandome no Satsujin) is a 2017 Japanese legal thriller film written, directed and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

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The Third Murder topic overview

The analysis highlights Plot, Cast and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around The Third Murder.

Related topics
34
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
39
Extracted relationships
42
Concept neighborhoods
9
Bridge connections
39

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Plot · 14 topics
Cast · 9 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Reception · 5 topics
Production · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$12.38 million
Cinematography
Mikiya Takimoto
Country
Japan
Directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Distributed by
Toho GAGA Corporation
Edited by
Hirokazu Kore-eda

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How The Third Murder connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Third Murder shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Third Murder → After, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, Deborah Young, Dostoevskian, Hirokazu Koreeda's, Japanese, Kore-eda’s, On, On Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Storm, The, The Hollywood Reporter Another extracted example is The Third Murder → Isao Hashizume, Izumi Matsuoka, Kōji Yakusho, Kōtarō Yoshida, Masaharu Fukuyama, Mikako Ichikawa, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Suzu Hirose, Yuki Saito. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Third Murder

Top relations

related to Critical reception · 14
The Third Murder → After, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, Deborah Young, Dostoevskian, Hirokazu Koreeda's, Japanese, Kore-eda’s, On, On Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Storm, The, The Hollywood Reporter
Starring · 9
The Third Murder → Isao Hashizume, Izumi Matsuoka, Kōji Yakusho, Kōtarō Yoshida, Masaharu Fukuyama, Mikako Ichikawa, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Suzu Hirose, Yuki Saito
related to External links · 3
The Third Murder → IMDb, Japanese, Official
Release dates · 2
The Third Murder → 4 September 2017 (2017-09-04) (Venice), 9 September 2017 (2017-09-09) (Japan)
Box office · 1
The Third Murder → $12.38 million
Cinematography · 1
The Third Murder → Mikiya Takimoto
Country · 1
The Third Murder → Japan
Directed by · 1
The Third Murder → Hirokazu Kore-eda
Distributed by · 1
The Third Murder → Toho GAGA Corporation
Edited by · 1
The Third Murder → Hirokazu Kore-eda

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

misumi shigemori murder sakie wife third kore-eda death father states claims film japanese time hirokazu man kawashima daughter agrees money

The Third Murder relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 42 structured relationships around The Third Murder. Examples in this analysis include The Third Murder → Box office → $12.38 million and The Third Murder → Cinematography → Mikiya Takimoto. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
The Third MurderBox office$12.38 million1.00infobox
The Third MurderCinematographyMikiya Takimoto1.00infobox
The Third MurderCountryJapan1.00infobox
The Third MurderDirected byHirokazu Kore-eda1.00infobox
The Third MurderDistributed byToho GAGA Corporation1.00infobox
The Third MurderEdited byHirokazu Kore-eda1.00infobox
The Third MurderKanji三度目の殺人1.00infobox
The Third MurderLanguageJapanese1.00infobox
The Third MurderMusic byLudovico Einaudi1.00infobox
The Third MurderProduced byMatsuzaki Kaoru Taguchi Hijiri1.00infobox
The Third MurderProduction companiesFuji Television Network Amuse GAGA Corporation1.00infobox
The Third MurderRelease dates4 September 2017 (2017-09-04) (Venice)1.00infobox
The Third MurderRelease dates9 September 2017 (2017-09-09) (Japan)1.00infobox
The Third MurderRevised HepburnSandome no Satsujin1.00infobox
The Third MurderRunning time124 minutes1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringMasaharu Fukuyama1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringSuzu Hirose1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringShinnosuke Mitsushima1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringMikako Ichikawa1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringIzumi Matsuoka1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringYuki Saito1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringKōtarō Yoshida1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringIsao Hashizume1.00infobox
The Third MurderStarringKōji Yakusho1.00infobox
The Third MurderWritten byHirokazu Kore-eda1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around The Third Murder bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Film, Hirokazu and Directed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • The Third Murder
    • Film
    • Hirokazu
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Hepburn
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Third
    • Best
    • Misumi
  • the third murder
    • Film
    • Hirokazu
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Hepburn
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Third
    • Best
    • Misumi
  • hirokazu kore-eda
    • Kore-eda
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • Third
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Japanese
    • Court
    • Production
    • Main
    • Venice
    • Legal
  • japanese
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Hepburn
    • Kore-eda
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • Third
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Film
    • Hirokazu
    • Production
  • legal thriller film
    • Third
    • Best
    • Hirokazu
    • Japanese
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Hepburn
    • Main
    • Venice
  • hepburn
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Hirokazu
    • Japanese
    • Production
    • Kore-eda
    • Third
    • Main
  • 74th venice international film festival
    • Third
    • Best
    • Hirokazu
    • Japanese
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Directed
    • Edited
    • Hepburn
    • Main
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
  • production
    • Sandome
    • Satsujin
    • Venice
    • 三度目の殺人
    • Written
    • Man
    • Third
    • Time

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Third Murder, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Third Murder with Plot. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
The Third MurderPlot · splits 25 ⟂ 15
The Third MurderCast · splits 30 ⟂ 10
The Third MurderOverview · splits 34 ⟂ 6
The Third MurderReception · splits 34 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Third Murder

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples42
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Third Murder to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Plot, Cast & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Third Murder · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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