Willful Murder

Willful Murder (1981)

Drama

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?

Director: Kei Kumai
Writer: Ryuzo Kikushima

Casts

	Tatsuya Nakadai as Yashiro
	Ichirō Nakatani as Toyama
	Isao Hashimoto as Ono
	Akio Miyabe as
	Yōko Asaji as
	Shinji Ogawa as
	Koji Yakusho as Journalist
	Jiro Kawarazaki as
	Kei Yamamoto as
	Shogen Nitta as
	Yoshisuke Makino as
	Seiichi Taguchi as
	Mikijiro Hira as Okuno
	Yoshio Inaba as Horii
	Shigeru Kōyama as
	Yūsuke Takita as Prosecutor Kawase
	Yasukiyo Umeno as Prosecutor Yamaoka
	Kentarô Kaji as
	Kenichi Matsuno as
	Junkichi Orimoto as
	Junichi Hayakawa as
	Kappei Matsumoto as Professor Hatano
	Torahiko Hamada as
	Toru Takeuchi as
	Yōsuke Kondō as Professor Akita
	Minoru Hirano as
	Go Endou as
	Goro Ohashi as
	Kōjirō Kusanagi as
	Sen Yano as
	Mikizo Hirata as
	Toru Masuoka as
	Hiroshi Kamiyama as
	Kakuya Saeki as
	Yuriko Abe as
	Kiyoto Harada as
	Shoji Wazawa as
	Shin Tsuda as
	Izou Oikawa as
	Hiromi Hoshino as
	Takashi Ebata as Driver
	Tamio Ishikura as
	Morihiko Uchiyama as
	Koji Koike as
	Kenji Yasunaga as
	Daisuke Iijima as
	Masashi Furuta as
	Kenji Aino as
	Hisashi Igawa as
	Takao Itō as Horiuchi
	Kaneko Iwasaki as Yoshiko Shimoyama
	Kinzō Shin as
	Hideji Ōtaki as
	Eitarō Ozawa as Itoga
	Noboru Nakaya as
	Kin Sugai as
	Daisuke Ryū as Maruyama
	Junnosuke Hiramitsu as Narrator (voice)

Crew