Keiho

6.1

Japan

Drama Crime

133 min

1999

Kyoka Suzuki Naoki Sugiura Yasuhito Ohchi Mika Asai Ayako Yoshitani Kazuyo Kawamura Tomonori Yoshida Hiroshi Isobe Kumiko Tsuchiya Hirokazu Inoue Tohru Emori Kirin Kiki Jun Kunimura Shinichi Tsutsumi Ittoku Kishibe Hideko Yoshida Mirai Yamamoto Masanobu Katsumura Takashi Sasano Masato Irie Misayo Haruki Daikichi Sugawara Chosuke Ikariya

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.