When his mother is accused of a murder committed after a catastrophic fire, 17th-century samurai Sano Ichiro must prove her innocence in The Fire Kimono by Laura Joh Rowland.
Movie Pitch: Kurosawa’s When the Levees Broke.
Lowdown: A relevant study of how people act during tragedies. B+
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