Half a Confession
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- Movie: Half a Confession
- Romaji: Han-ochi
- Japanese: 半落ち
- Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Writer: Kiyoshi Sasabe, Toshiyuki Tabe, Hideo Yokoyama
- Producer: Sunao Sakagami
- Cinematographer: Mutsuo Naganuma
- Release Date: January 10, 2004
- Runtime: 121 min.
- Studio: Toei, TBS
- Distributor: Toei
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark. -- Midnight Eye
[edit] Cast
- Akira Terao - Soichiro Kaji
- Kyohei Shibata - Kazumasa Shiki
- Mieko Harada - Keiko Kaji
- Hidetaka Yoshioka - Keigo Fujibayashi
- Mayu Tsuruta - Yoko Nakao
- Kirin Kiki - Yasuko Shimamura
- Tsuyoshi Ihara - Morio Sase
- Jun Kunimura - Manabu Uemura
- Reiko Takashima - Akiko Uemura
- Tomoko Naraoka - Dr. Takaki
- Hirotaro Honda
- Hisashi Igawa
- Renji Ishibashi
- Hoshi Ishida - Toshiya Kaji
- Anzu Nagai
- Ikuji Nakamura
- Toshiyuki Nishida
- Kaoru Okunuki
- Yosuke Saito
- Kyusaku Shimada
- Issei Takahashi
- Seiichi Tanabe
