Darkness at Noon (1956)
Original title: 真昼の暗黒
Darkness at Noon is a 1956 Japanese-language crime movie directed by Tadashi Imai, with a running time of 2h 2m. It stars Kōjirō Kusanagi, Sachiko Hidari and Taketoshi Naitō.
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Cast
- Kōjirō Kusanagi as Seiji Uemura
- Sachiko Hidari as Kaneko Nagai
- Taketoshi Naitō as Lawyer Kondo
- Chōko Iida as Tsuna Uemura
- Teruo Matsuyama as Takeshi Kojima
- Ichirō Sugai as Lawyer Yamamoto
- Yoshi Katō as Oshima
- Junkichi Orimoto as Detective Sugita
- Kyū Sazanka as Shiraki
- Shinsuke Ashida as Yoshii
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Satoe Miyazaki
- So Yamamura as Yuji