Half a Confession
6.4
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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Cast
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Akira Terao
Soichiro Kaji
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Mieko Harada
Keiko Kaji
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Sunao Sakagami
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Keigo Fujibayashi
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Toshiyuki Tabe
Mayu Tsuruta
Yoko Nakao
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Casshern
Hideo Yokoyama
Jun Kunimura
Manabu Uemura
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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Tsuyoshi Ihara
Morio Sase
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Letters from Iwo Jima
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Kyusaku Shimada
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Yousuke Saito
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Kiyoshi Sasabe Director · Toshiyuki Tabe Screenplay Hideo Yokoyama Story
Worldwide gross $15M · First release January 10, 2004 · Produced in Japan
Box office
Worldwide gross
$14,638,660
Production
TBS
Production
Sumitomo Corporation
Production
Tokyo ASA Company
Production
"Hanochi" Film Partners
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Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
半落ち
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · January 10, 2004
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
October 27, 2010 · Premiere · Eiga-Sai Film Festival
Romania
July 21, 2009 · Festivalul Filmului Japonez
Uganda
January 16, 2011 · Japanese Film Festival
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