Darkness at Noon

Mar 26, 1956

2h 2m

★ 6.6

Overview

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Gendai Production

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Cast

Seiji Uemura

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Kaneko Nagai

Sachiko Hidari

Lawyer Kondo

Taketoshi Naitō

Tsuna Uemura

Chōko Iida

Takeshi Kojima

Teruo Matsuyama

Lawyer Yamamoto

Ichirō Sugai

Oshima

Yoshi Katō

Detective Sugita

Junkichi Orimoto

Shiraki

Kyū Sazanka

Yoshii

Shinsuke Ashida

Satoe Miyazaki

Tanie Kitabayashi

Yuji

So Yamamura

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