Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel (2014)

Original name: 黒い福音

Release date: January 19, 2014

Movie

Average time: 110 minutes

Genres: TV Movie, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Synopsis: In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.