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Release, runtime and language
1985 · 143 mins · Japanese
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Directed by
Masaki Kobayashi
Starring
Daisuke Ryû, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Mayumi Ogawa, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Ôtake

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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