Half a Confession
10/01/2004
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.
Movie Information
Akira Terao
as Soichiro Kaji
Mieko Harada
as Keiko Kaji
Hidetaka Yoshioka
as Keigo Fujibayashi
Mayu Tsuruta
as Yoko Nakao
Jun Kunimura
as Manabu Uemura
Tsuyoshi Ihara
as Morio Sase
Kyūsaku Shimada
as
Yousuke Saito
as
Ikuji Nakamura
as
Takashi Sasano
as
Yasuhito Shimao
as
Kosuke Toyohara
as
Masaki Terasoma
as
Mitsuru Kato
as
Toshiaki Ogawa
as
Tetsuhiro Sai
as
Saburo Tamura
as
Daisuke Nagakura
as
Toshiyuki Nishida
as
Shirô Namiki
as
Hoshi Ishida
as Toshiya Kaji
Anzu Nagai
as Manabu Uemura's daughter
Takako Ariyasu
as
Sayuri Murase
as
Tomoko Kubota
as
Hirotaro Honda
as
Ryosei Tayama
as
Kaoru Okunuki
as
Masuyo Iwamoto
as
Seiichi Tanabe
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Hisashi Igawa
as
Reiko Takashima
as Akiko Uemura
Kirin Kiki
as Yasuko Shimamura
Tomoko Naraoka
as Dr. Takaki
Kyôhei Shibata
as Kazumasa Shiki
Issey Takahashi
as
Taiju Nakane
as
