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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Akira TeraoSoichiro Kaji
Mieko HaradaKeiko Kaji
Hidetaka YoshiokaKeigo Fujibayashi
Mayu TsurutaYoko Nakao
Jun KunimuraManabu Uemura
Tsuyoshi IharaMorio Sase
Kyusaku ShimadaCast
Yousuke SaitoCast
Ikuji NakamuraCast
Takashi SasanoCast
Kosuke ToyoharaCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Screenplay
- Toshiyuki Tabe
- Screenplay
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Director of Photography
- Mutsuo Naganuma
- Editor
- Hideaki Ohata
- Producer
- Chiharu Nakasone
- Producer
- Yoshihiro Kojima
- Producer
- Kazuya Hamana
- Original Music Composer
- Tamiya Terashima