Designated Lawyer (2018)
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but people become furious that he was not going to be prosecuted. A committee of prosecutors meets and concludes that Seizo Tagane should be prosecuted. An outstanding lawyer Yui Hitotsugi takes the prosecutor's position in the case with the help of the prosecutor Tachibana.
Director:
Hajime Takezono
Writer:
Takeharu Sakurai
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Keiko Kitagawa as Yui Hitotsugi |
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Kazuki Kitamura as Shinji Tachibana |
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Kazuki Enari as Takashi Hitotsugi |
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Sei Matobu as Satomi Saito |
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Toshihiro Yashiba as Kotaro Yanai |
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Yasufumi Hayashi as |
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Yukijiro Hotaru as |
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Meikyo Yamada as |
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Takaaki Ito as |
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Takuji Kawakubo as |
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Bokuzo Masana as Satoru Tsuyama |
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Kazuyuki Aijima as Itsuo Shirai |
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Renji Ishibashi as Seizo Tagane |
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Michiko Hada as Kyoko Kanbayashi |
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Yutaka Matsushige as Goro Kakeida |
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Katsuhisa Namase as Tadakazu Abe |
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Baijaku Nakamura as Fuminori Mitsuzuka |
| Writing | Takeharu Sakurai | Screenplay |
| Directing | Hajime Takezono | Director |
| Camera | Teruo Seki | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Yuji Ikemoto | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Shoko Yoshizawa | Art Direction |
| Sound | Maiku Samata | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Shuhei Terada | Editor |