Willful Murder

1981 · 132 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · DIR. Kei Kumai

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Overview

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

Dialogue Timeline — 1,221 lines

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00:00:00 1981 - Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Entry
00:05:09 His body was found in five parts:
00:09:13 It's very clear that he was dead when the train hit him.
00:12:38 It doesn't add up.
00:16:44 I shouldn't speculate,
00:19:55 from the activities of the Japanese Communist Party.
00:27:26 Also, no one witnessed them do it.
00:32:56 If I had been murdered then,
00:36:43 We can't publish this.
00:41:27 the First Division assumed it was oil from the locomotive and left it at that,
00:48:41 the location of the crime to factories producing cosmetics, textiles,
00:53:27 to dismiss a major case as a suicide in under a month,
00:58:47 He immediately said that it was suicide.
01:03:43 What did you tell them?
01:08:09 Forget about this story.
01:13:38 The large number of people who were sentenced to death...
01:20:42 so I couldn't go back to Hokkaido.
01:26:24 You're making that up.
01:32:30 we've checked everywhere and found nothing.
01:37:13 He's the one who said that Shimoyama committed suicide.
01:43:00 the Supreme Court hands over its final verdict on the Matsukawa trial.
01:49:19 on a road through rice paddies and fields to a railway underpass.
01:54:53 are out of the question because of the large number of residences in the area.
02:11:18 The End

Cast & Characters

Tatsuya Nakadai Yashiro Ichirō Nakatani Toyama Isao Hashimoto Ono
Akio Miyabe
Yōko Asaji
Shinji Ogawa Koji Yakusho Journalist Jiro Kawarazaki Kei Yamamoto
Shogen Nitta
Yoshisuke Makino
Seiichi Taguchi
Mikijiro Hira Okuno Yoshio Inaba Horii Shigeru Kōyama Yūsuke Takita Prosecutor Kawase Yasukiyo Umeno Prosecutor Yamaoka
Kentarô Kaji
Kenichi Matsuno
Junkichi Orimoto
Junichi Hayakawa
Kappei Matsumoto Professor Hatano
Torahiko Hamada
Toru Takeuchi
Yōsuke Kondō Professor Akita
Minoru Hirano
Go Endou
Goro Ohashi
Kōjirō Kusanagi Sen Yano
Mikizo Hirata
Toru Masuoka
Hiroshi Kamiyama
Kakuya Saeki
Yuriko Abe
Kiyoto Harada
Shoji Wazawa
Shin Tsuda
Izou Oikawa
Hiromi Hoshino

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,221
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line02:11:18

Production Record

DirectorKei Kumai
LanguageJapanese

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