THE KATSURAGI MUDER CASE

KATSURAGI JIKEN

By Masaaki AKAHORI

COLORBIRD INC. - as SALES All rights

Thriller - Completed 2016

Director Masaaki Akahori (The Samurai That Night, ’12) brings a landmark play to the screen! Starring Tomokazu Miura

    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Crime, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Masaaki AKAHORI
    • Writer(s)
    • Masaaki AKIHIRO
    • Producer(s)
    • Keiko FUJIMURA
    • Synopsis
    • Kiyoshi Katsuragi, together with his beautiful wife, had been the picture of domestic bliss having raised two children. Then one day, his 21-year-old second son, Minoru, indiscriminately causes the death of 8 people and is imprisoned with a death sentence. The shocking turn of events plunges Kiyoshi into despair while his eldest son Tamotsu loses his job and his wife Nobuko becomes mentally unbalanced. In comes a woman (Hoshino), a staunch opponent of capital punishment who decides to marry the son, Minoru, while he’s in prison.