The Snow White Murder Case

Watch "The Snow White Murder Case" (白ゆき姫殺人事件, 2014) online on iFILM — a Japanese thriller from director Yoshihiro Nakamura, starring Mao Inoue and Gō Ayano. Noriko Miki is beautiful, well-liked, and found dead in a national park. Within hours, suspicion lands on her coworker Miki Shirono — plain, quiet, reportedly jealous of Noriko's looks and her rumored closeness with their boss.

A TV reporter picks up the story: calls former classmates, scrolls through old posts, stitches together a portrait from secondhand accounts. The portrait holds together. Whether it's accurate is the film's actual subject. Nakamura uses the case to map exactly how rumor spreads into verdict online — drawing the audience into the same rush to judge that he's dissecting. Stream "The Snow White Murder Case" (2014) on iFILM.