Justice (movie)

Plot Summary

Justice is set in a Japanese high school, where Mr. Robert is having his class do a running translation of the Potsdam Declaration. Action in the classroom is centered on Mr. Robert's lifeless, monotonous recitation of the document, Itadaki's hurried efforts to write it all down in grammatically correct Japanese prose, an unnamed student's creation of pornographic flipbook animation in the corner of one of his textbooks, and the initially drowsy Tojo, who wakes up when he realizes a girl's gym class is running the hurdles outside. He clears his books and blank notes off his desk and begins to keep a running tally (using the five-stroke Chinese character 正) of when the girls readjust their buruma (lit. "bloomers," roughly the same as the spankies cheerleaders and female volleyball players wear), by color (red, blue, green), all conveniently quantified for the audience by the foleyed sound of snapping spandex. When the stunning Hoshi notices Tojo staring at her, she self-consciously puts her all into her time; when she trips over a hurdle and hits the asphalt Tojo can't hide his alarm; Mr. Robert immediately turns on him, begins to lecture him about focusing on Potsdam rather than buruma and asks what the "正正正" on his desk means (with some racist rhetoric, e.g. "What do you Japs mean by this character?"), to which Tojo replies "justice" ("justice" being 正義 in Japanese). When Robert looks out the window he throws Tojo out of class, telling him first in English, then in Japanese, to "get out in the hall." The girls' gym class comes back into the building, and Hoshi flirtatiously confronts Tojo, now nursing a nosebleed, who denies all wrongdoing, but grins his fool head off and displays a "V for Victory" at the camera once her back is turned.

External Links

• Jam Films 1 (in Japanese)
• Justice's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)

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