Overview
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Yasutaka NagaiNovel
- Sumio ŌmoriScreenplay
- Original title
- 39 刑法第三十九条
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 17, 1999
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
Production
Cast
Kyoka SuzukiKafuka Ogawa
Shinichi TsutsumiMasaki Shibata
Ittoku KishibeInspector Nagoshi
Hideko YoshidaKafka's Mother
Mirai YamamotoMikako Kudo
Masanobu KatsumuraSunaoka
Takashi SasanoTezuka- Takatoshi TakedaDetective Nakamura
Masato IrieHatata Osamu
Misayo HarukiHatata Kei
Daikichi SugawaraDetective Tatebayashi
Jun KunimuraShibata Toshimitsu
Kirin KikiDefence Counsel Shigure Nagamura
Tohru EmoriProsecutor Michihiko Kusama
Naoki SugiuraProfessor Saneyuki Fujishiro
Yasuhito OhchiKudo Keisuke as a child- Isamu MinamiHatata Osamu (as a child )
Mika AsaiMikako as a child
Ayako YoshitaniKudo Atsuko
Kazuyo KawamuraKudo Miyuki
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