Willful Murder (1981)

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?
Kei Kumai
Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Isao Hashimoto, Akio Miyabe, Yôko Asaji, Shinji Ogawa, Koji Yakusho, Jiro Kawarazaki, Kei Yamamoto, Shogen Nitta, Yoshisuke Makino, Seiichi Taguchi, Mikijirō Hira, Yoshio Inaba, Shigeru Kôyama, Yûsuke Takita, Yasukiyo Umeno, Kentarô Kaji, Kenichi Matsuno, Junkichi Orimoto, Junichi Hayakawa, Kappei Matsumoto, Torahiko Hamada, Toru Takeuchi, Yousuke Kondou, Minoru Hirano, Go Endou, Goro Ohashi, Kōjirō Kusanagi, Sen Yano, Mikizo Hirata, Toru Masuoka, Hiroshi Kamiyama, Kakuya Saeki, Yuriko Abe, Kiyoto Harada, Shoji Wazawa, Shin Tsuda, Izou Oikawa, Hiromi Hoshino, Takashi Ebata, Tamio Ishikura, Morihiko Uchiyama, Koji Koike, Kenji Yasunaga, Daisuke Iijima, Masashi Furuta, Kenji Aino, Hisashi Igawa, Takao Ito, Kaneko Iwasaki, Kinzō Shin, Hideji Ôtaki, Eitarō Ozawa, Noboru Nakaya, Kin Sugai, Daisuke Ryū, Junnosuke Hiramitsu
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