
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

Taiju Nakane as
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