The Incident (1978)
Original title: 事件
The Incident is a 1978 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, with a running time of 2h 18m. It stars Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida and Shinobu Otake.
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
Cast
- Tetsuro Tamba as Lawyer Kikuchi
- Shinsuke Ashida as DA Okabe
- Shinobu Otake as Yoshiko Sakai
- Toshiyuki Nagashima as Hiroshi Ueda
- Keiko Matsuzaka as Hatsuko Sakai
- Kei Yamamoto as Takeshi Hanai
- Junko Natsu as Kyôko Sakurai
- Asao Sano as Kihei Ueda
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Kane Shinozaki
- Nobuko Otowa as Sumie Sakai
- Kō Nishimura as Goichi Ômura
- Tsunehiko Watase as Takeshi Hanai