The Empty Table

Year: 1985

Runtime: 143 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Drama

A year after Otohiko Kidoji is arrested for his role in a deadly terrorist kidnapping, the family is left reeling. While the parents of the other kidnappers have either resigned or taken their own lives, father Nobuyuki Kidoji stubbornly insists he bears no responsibility for his son’s crimes.

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