
24 Jul 1996

A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Teppei Kaneko

Riko Sudo

Masayoshi Arakawa

Tatsuo Saito

Toyoko Kaneko

Akira Ahamada

Mitsuru Sada

Kojo Shinjaki

Koji Yamada

Yoko Doi

Mitsuko Ichimura

Toshiko Furukawa

Shigeru Kogura

Satoshi Kitao

Mitsuaki Omori

Hideo Mitsui

Takashi Miyamoto

Shogo Muroyama

Seiichiro Tamura

Toshio Hiroyasu

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