Willful Murder

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

• 
  Kei Kumai

• 
  Tatsuya Nakadai
  Yashiro
• 
  Ichirō Nakatani
  Toyama
• 
  Isao Hashimoto
  Ono
• 
  Akio Miyabe
• 
  Yōko Asaji
• 
  Shinji Ogawa
• 
  Koji Yakusho
  Journalist
• 
  Jiro Kawarazaki
• 
  Kei Yamamoto
• 
  Shogen Nitta
• 
  Yoshisuke Makino
• 
  Seiichi Taguchi
• 
  Mikijiro Hira
  Okuno
• 
  Yoshio Inaba
  Horii
• 
  Shigeru Kōyama
• 
  Yūsuke Takita
  Prosecutor Kawase
• 
  Yasukiyo Umeno
  Prosecutor Yamaoka
• 
  Kentarô Kaji
• 
  Kenichi Matsuno
• 
  Junkichi Orimoto