"It was a crime committed for loved ones. A stout drama about a man at an impasse."
Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. Gradually, Kazuma loses hope.
Shuhei Handa
Masahiro Umeda
Mariko Akama
Tadashi Sakata
Mai Ohtani
Yoshinori Okada
Kei Nakafuji
Nao Osato
Minehiro Kinomoto
Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. Gradually, Kazuma loses hope.
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