Suspicion (1982)
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Director:
Yoshitarō Nomura
Writers:
Motomu Furuta, Yoshitarō Nomura.
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Kaori Momoi as Kumako Onizawa |
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Shima Iwashita as Ritsuko Sahara |
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Takeshi Kaga as Katsuo Toyosaki |
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Akira Emoto as Shigekazu Akitani |
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Kyoko Maya as Sakie Kataoka |
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Kensaku Morita as Yoshiro Fujiwara |
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Noboru Nakaya as Fukutaro Shirakawa |
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Takao Itō as Tetsuro Kataoka |
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Taketoshi Naitō as Judge Yazawa |
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Akira Nagoya as Iwasaki |
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Nenji Kobayashi as Prosecutor Munakata |
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Shogen Nitta as |
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Jiro Kawarazaki as Detective Kobayashi |
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Yasukiyo Umeno as Chief Detective Asano |
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Sadao Mizutani as Katsuyuki Shimada |
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Toshikatsu Tango as Muneharu Shirakawa |
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Kiyoshi Yamamoto as Director of the Criminal Affairs Division |
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Daisuke Iijima as Detective Sasaki |
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Yoshio Ōmori as Tokuro Shirakawa |
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Akiji Kobayashi as Chief of Police, Ishihara |
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Kinji Omino as |
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Go Endou as Forensic officer |
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Hiroshi Kamiyama as Bar association executive |
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Miyoko Nakamura as Shirakawa Family Relative |
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Yoko Shioya as |
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Yasuko Beppu as |
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Tetsuo Morishita as Traffic police officer |
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Shintarô Mishima as |
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Takeshi Mikami as |
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Kazuo Iwaki as |
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Sōnosuke Oda as |
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Hideaki Komori as Police station reception |
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Taku Kido as Reporter |
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Akihiko Hanyû as Akiya's colleague reporter |
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Jun Kashima as Associate Judge |
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Eitarō Ozawa as Professor Anzai |
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Tatsuo Matsumura as Masao Harayama |
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Norihei Miki as Tamotsu Kinoshita |
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Tanie Kitabayashi as Harue Shirakawa |
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Tetsuro Tamba as Kanetaka Okamura |
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Isuzu Yamada as Tokie Horiuchi |
| Crew | Matsutaro Kobayashi | Lighting Camera |
| Writing | Seicho Matsumoto | Novel |
| Directing | Yoshitarō Nomura | Director |
| Art | Kyôhei Morita | Art Direction |
| Editing | Kazuo Ôta | Editor |
| Production | Yoshitarō Nomura | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Ryuji Matsumoto | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Yasushi Akutagawa | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kurodo Mori | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Takashi Kawamata | Director of Photography |
| Production | Shigemi Sugisaki | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Shinichi Harada | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Shingo Matsubara | Assistant Director |
| Production | Yoshitarō Nomura | Producer |
| Writing | Motomu Furuta | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yoshitarō Nomura | Screenplay |