In a spoof of the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, the 1991 film 12 Kind Japanese People posed the then fanciful question: what would happen if Japan adopted a jury system?

Back then, the answer appeared to be chaos. The film starts with all but one of the jurors declaring the accused not guilty, largely because she looks too sweet to be guilty of killing her husband. But in a reversal of the US original, one steadfast juror slowly persuades the other 11 to switch to a guilty verdict. By the end, all 12 have reversed position again, going back to their original not guilty decision.