Director: Yoshida Kiju
Scriptwriter: Yoshida Kiju, Fukiko Miyauchi after Shuichi Sae's novel Rohjuku Kazoku
Cinematographer: Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Editor: Akira Suzuki
Art Setting: Yoshie Kikukawa
Sound: Toshio Nakano
Music: Haruomi Hosono
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Shachiko Murashe, Choichiro Kawarazaki
Production:
Seiyu-Kinema Tokyo
(Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Kazunobu Yamaguchi)
Distribution:
Sepia Production
5 passage du piver
75000 - Paris
Paris
Tel.: 0033 148078061
Fax.: 0033 148072982
Year: 1986
35 mm, Colour, 105 min, OV Japanese with French Subtitles.
An elderly lady is found dead in her son's home, where she lived with her husband. The police investigation rapidly unearths a snake-pit of family and domestic guilt. Everyone, the son, the daughter-in-law and the husband could have had a personal reason to get rid of the senile and burdensome woman. Unless she herself had chosen suicide. Is euthanasia a crime or is it just a choice of man destined to die?
