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Half a Confession (2004)
Directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe
Overview
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.
Length 121 minutes
Actors
Akira Terao | Mieko Harada | Hidetaka Yoshioka | Mayu Tsuruta | Jun Kunimura | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Kyusaku Shimada | Yosuke 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 | Ryôsei Tayama | Kaoru Okunuki | Masuyo Iwamoto | Seiichi Tanabe | Renji Ishibashi | Hisashi Igawa | Reiko Takashima | Kirin Kiki | Tomoko Naraoka | Kyohei Shibata | Issey Takahashi