Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
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Akira Terao as Soichiro Kaji
Mieko Harada as Keiko Kaji
Hidetaka Yoshioka as Keigo Fujibayashi
Mayu Tsuruta as Yoko Nakao
Jun Kunimura as Manabu Uemura
Tsuyoshi Ihara as Morio Sase
Kyūsaku Shimada as
Yousuke Saito as
Ikuji Nakamura as
Takashi Sasano as
Yasuhito Shimao as
Kosuke Toyohara as
Masaki Terasoma as
Mitsuru Kato as
Toshiaki Ogawa as
Tetsuhiro Sai as
Saburo Tamura as
Daisuke Nagakura as
Toshiyuki Nishida as
Shirô Namiki as
Hoshi Ishida as Toshiya Kaji
Anzu Nagai as Manabu Uemura's daughter
Takako Ariyasu as
Sayuri Murase as
Tomoko Kubota as
Hirotaro Honda as
Ryosei Tayama as
Kaoru Okunuki as
Masuyo Iwamoto as
Seiichi Tanabe as
Renji Ishibashi as
Hisashi Igawa as
Reiko Takashima as Akiko Uemura
Kirin Kiki as Yasuko Shimamura
Tomoko Naraoka as Dr. Takaki
Kyôhei Shibata as Kazumasa Shiki
Issey Takahashi as
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