Crimebroker
Directed byIan Barry
Written byTony Morphett
Based onA story by Sean Goodwyn and Steve Matthews
Produced byChris Brown
Hiroyuki Ikeda
Kazuo Nakamura
John Sexton
Andrew Warren
StarringJacqueline Bisset
CinematographyDan Burstall
Edited byNicholas Beauman
Music byRoger Mason
Production
companies
John Sexton Productions
Portman Productions
Sogovision
Distributed byNetwork Ten
TV Asahi
Release date
July 1993 (Japanese release)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesAustralia
Japan
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$2.5 million[1]

Crimebroker is a 1993 Australian-Japanese television film, starring Jacqueline Bisset as a judge who moonlights as a "crime broker." It was also known as Corrupt Justice.[1][2]

Plot Summary

Jacqueline Bisset plays a respectable Sydney housewife and magistrate who leads a double life selling expertly devised crimes. In fact, she seems to have sassed it until she falls for Japanese criminologist Masaya Kato and is drawn into a partnership with him that could be dangerous for her health.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p31
  2. "Filmstar Bisset finds a job and is joined by Aussies". The Canberra Times. Vol. 66, no. 20, 948. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 20 August 1992. p. 7. Retrieved 19 April 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  3. Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper; Entertainment Guide section; 20/06/1995; Page 12


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