- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2010-05-29
- Director: Banmei Takahashi
- Writers: Banmei Takahashi
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Hirofumi Arai , Duncan , Masato Hagiwara , Riona Hazuki , Akiko Hinagata , Naoki Hosaka , Norihiko Hôfuku , Makoto Kakeda , Takenori Murano , Yuko Nakamura
- Runtime: 117 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: BOX 袴田事件 命とは (Japan) , Box: Hakamada jiken - inochi towa
- Plot: Seen at the Rome film festival, "Box" Hakamada Jiken Inochi Towa is a movie that constructs without judging, observes without complain, tells a long story without claiming anything. This is a story about judging, and about the true statement that "when you judge someone, you are under judgment as well". All the story moves around this concept. The Japanese boxe champion is forced to admit the cruel murder of 4 people, but we actually don't know if he's guilty or not. The mere fact he's forced, doesn't means that he was innocent, as a judge says. The cast is superb, the actors are great, the photograph is simply perfect, and you won't find a single moment of rhetoric on this story. Even the tough part of prison-tortures is in a way honest: it doesn't want to move you to tears, is not cold as a reportage, but neither theatrical as it could have been. To me was by far the best movie at the Festival, with a deep and intense final question. Because you too, and all of us, we have the right to judge.
- IMDB:tt1562275
Box: Hakamada jiken – inochi towa Cast · · · ALL
Banmei Takahashi
Director
Masato Hagiwara
Tendou Kuakmoto
Hirofumi Arai
Iwao Hakamada
Takenori Murano
Judge Isi
Naoki Hosaka
Judge Takami
Yuko Nakamura
Hideko Hakamada
Duncan
Detective Matsumoto
Takamasa Suga
Takasiyu Iraiwa
Togo Shimura
Prosecutor Okuba
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kinu Hakamada
Ryushin Tei
Detective Kuroyanagi
Hideo Sako
Detective Sumiyoshi
Norihiko Hôfuku
Detective Haruta
Makoto Kakeda
Bar owner Amaziya
Kan Mikami
Elementary school teacher
Akira Hamada
Member of national assembly Kikukawa
Jun Kunimura
Death row inmate
Ittoku Kishibe
Professor Yokoshi
Sansei Shiomi
Counsel Doi
Ryo Ishibashi
Police officer Tatematsu
Kôichi Ueda
Prosecutor Huziwara
Ren Osugi
Prosecutor Yoshikawa