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.
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映画「39 刑法第三十九条」劇場予告
Cast
Kyoka Suzuki
Kafuka Ogawa
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Masaki Shibata
Ittoku Kishibe
Inspector Nagoshi
Hideko Yoshida
Kafka's Mother
Mirai Yamamoto
Mikako Kudo
Masanobu Katsumura
Sunaoka
Takashi Sasano
Tezuka
Takatoshi Takeda
Detective Nakamura
Masato Irie
Hatata Osamu
Misayo Haruki
Hatata Kei
Daikichi Sugawara
Detective Tatebayashi
Jun Kunimura
Shibata Toshimitsu
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