Film

Shikei Kijun

2011 · 1h 54m · Drama

Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Kojiro Otomo who advocates the abolition of the death penalty, and the public prosecutor Mariko Nagase studied law together. Each have their own thoughts about the death penalty. One day, Otomo’s wife is murdered by someone. Shinzo Sabae who is resentful of a lawsuit that Otomo had been in charge of, is arrested as a suspect. Otomo reverses the stance he had had until now and seeks the death penalty against Sabae. This prompts Mito to make the decision to become a lawyer and stand in the court. However, the first case Mito takes charge of is the defence of Sabae, who murdered the wife of his good friend, Otomo…

Koji Yamamoto

Yusuke Mito

Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Kojiro Otomo

Naho Toda

Mariko Nagase

Kotomi Kyono

Noriko Iijima

Yoshimasa Kondo

Wataru Togane

Kenichi Yajima

Goro Takaishi

Yuriko Hirooka

Toshiko Togane

Jiro Sato

Takeshi Hoshino

Kei Yamamoto

Kosuke Mito

Akio Kaneda

Ryusuke Ishimaru

Takashi Kashiwabara

Shinzo Sabae

Ken Mitsuishi

Kazuho Karita

Akira Emoto

Kyusaku Tsushima

• Toshiyuki MizutaniDirector
• Mitsuru TanabeScreenplay
• Naoki KawasumiProducer
• Yasunori AokiProducer
• Yōichi ShigaDirector of Photography
• Yu TakamiOriginal Music Composer
• Nobuyuki TakahashiEditor

Release date

September 25, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 54m

Genres

Drama