Part of the 2024 season: Unforgettable
Winny
Winny
Director MATSUMOTO Yusaku
Cast HIGASHIDE Masahiro, MIURA Takahiro
2023, 127 min, English subtitles
KANEKO Isamu (HIGASHIDE Masahiro) is the genius programmer behind the real-life peer-to-peer file-sharing program Winny. Released in 2002 and considered revolutionary at the time, Winny quickly became the software of choice for online piracy in Japan, attracting attention from users and suspicion from authorities. In 2003, two of the program’s users were arrested for using Winny to share copyrighted material, and beginning in 2004, KANEKO would also be arrested, tried, and ultimately found guilty of enabling these copyright violations.
Winny is a powerful retelling of the real events that befell KANEKO and his legal team, directed by promising director MATSUMOTO Yusaku. As KANEKO’s legal battle unfolds, MATSUMOTO crafts a thought-provoking exploration of a question that remains strikingly relevant in today’s era of technological omnipresence: to what extent can the creator of a technology be held responsible for its users’ actions?
42歳で死去したプログラマー、金子勇が開発したファイル共有ソフト「Winny」にまつわる実話を基に描いたドラマ。データのやりとりが簡単にできるファイル共有ソフトを作った金子は、試用版を2ちゃんねるにアップする。しかし、大量の映画やゲーム、音楽などが違法アップロードされ、逮捕者が続出。金子も著作権法違反ほう助の容疑で逮捕されてしまう。
(Special thanks to Eikoku News Digest)
Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Saturday 10 February, 18:10
- QUAD Sunday 11 February, 12:30
- Cameo Wednesday 21 February, 18:00
- Queen's Film Theatre Saturday 2 March, 15:00
- City Screen Thursday 14 March, 18:30
- Firstsite Saturday 16 March, 14:00
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All films in this season
- Winny
- Egoist
- Ripples
- YOKO
- Hit Me Anyone One More Time!
- Thousand and One Nights
- The Inerasable
- Sabakan
- Undercurrent
- The Lump in My Heart
- From the End of the World
- Twilight Cinema Blues
- Shadow of Fire
- Do Unto Others
- Hoarder On The Border
- Voices in the Wind
- A Man
- Ice Cream Fever
- Hand
- Mondays: See You ‘This’ Week!
- The Fish Tale
- The Zen Diary
- The Snow Flurry
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror