半落ち
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.
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Akira Terao
Mieko Harada
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Mayu Tsuruta
Jun Kunimura
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Kyusaku Shimada
Yousuke Saito
Ikuji Nakamura
Takashi Sasano
Yasuhito Shimao
Kosuke Toyohara
Masaki Terasoma
Mitsuru Kato
Toshiaki Ogawa
Tetsuhiro Sai
Saburo Tamura
Daisuke Nagakura
Toshiyuki Nishida
Shirô Namiki
Hoshi Ishida
Anzu Nagai
Takako Ariyasu
Sayuri Murase
Tomoko Kubota
Hirotaro Honda
Ryosei Tayama
Kaoru Okunuki
Masuyo Iwamoto
Seiichi Tanabe
Renji Ishibashi
Hisashi Igawa
Reiko Takashima
Kirin Kiki
Tomoko Naraoka
Kyôhei Shibata
Issey Takahashi
Taiju Nakane
Kazuhiko Takeuchi
