Credited cast: | |||
Ryô Kase | ... | Teppei Kaneko | |
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Asaka Seto | ... | Riko Sudo, Lawyer |
Kôji Yamamoto | ... | Tatsuo Saito | |
Masako Motai | ... | Toyoko kaneko | |
Kôji Yakusho | ... | Masayoshi Arakawa, Lawyer | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Daisuke Honda | ||
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Hirotarô Honda | ... | Hideo Mitsui |
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Yosuke Ishii | ... | Keizo Hirayama |
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Toshiyuki Kitami | ... | Takashi Miyamoto |
Fumiyo Kohinata | ... | Shogo Muroyama | |
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Tôru Masuoka | ... | Seiichiro Tamura |
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Ken Mitsuishi | ... | Mitsuru Sada |
Nao Ohmori | ... | Koji Yamada (as Nao Ômori) | |
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Shin'ya Ohwada | ... | Toshio Hiroyasu (as Shin'ya Ôwada) |
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Toshinori Omi |
An unemployed young man is on the packed Tokyo subway en route to a job interview when a schoolgirl grabs him by the wrist and fingers him as a molester. A man was feeling her up on the train. The young man is arrested and no one, not the station master, the public defender or the police, seems the least interested in his protestations of innocence. It would be much more efficient if he would accept a plea bargain. Written by aghaemi
Japan's foreign-film entry to the 2008 Academy Awards is a doozy and arrives from one of the country's preeminent filmmakers, Masayuki Suo. In his first film since 1996's "Shall We Dansu?", he brings the same discriminating eye back to Japan's cultural and social norms and in "I Just Didn't Do It", zeros in on its oppressively rigid judicial system. Observed on a level that can only be described as stark realism, a true departure from Suo's august social comedies and a distinct legal procedural going by its narrative trajectory of showing the inciting incident, investigation and to the courtroom in its various stages of due process Teppei Kaneko (Ryo Kase) is accused of molesting a schoolgirl on his way to a job interview, subsequently coerced by weary detectives to accept the charge and pay the fine instead of pursuing vindication a system that Suo notes as the reason for Japan's almost perfect conviction rate and institutionalised prejudice against the accused.