Movie: Box: Hakamada Case - What is the Life
Romaji: Box: Hakamada jiken - inochi towa
Japanese: BOX 袴田事件 命とは
Genre: Drama
Director: Banmei Takahashi
Writer: Banmei Takahashi
Release Date: May 29, 2010
Runtime: 117 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Cast:
Masato Hagiwara - Tendou Kuakmoto
Hirofumi Arai - Iwao Hakamada
Riona Hazuki - Kyouko Kumamoto
Takenori Murano - Judge Isi
Naoki Hosaka - Judge Takami
Dankan - Detective Matsumoto
Takamasa Suga - Takasiyu Iraiwa
Plot:
In 1966, a factory employee, Iwao Hakamda was arrested for murdering his boss and his wife and two children. Despite his continuous denial, he eventually confessed under duress and was sentenced to death. The youngest among the three judges, Norimichi Kumamoto convinced he was innocent but his vote was over ruled and the worse, he was tasked to write the verdict. A year later, Kumamoto quit the bench in protest and after 40 years, he broke his silence to denounce the verdict. This is the story about two men who were born in the same year and go through the extreme hardship on the opposite ends of the world. Hakamada is now believed the world longest serving death row inmate.
General:
Format.......: Matroska
File Size....: 1488,67 MiB
Duration.....: 1h 57mn
Bitrate......: 1 773 Kbps
Subtitles....: English, custom made by lordretsudo@ADC
Source.......: DVD by ikeda69/stahl@ADC
Screenshots (Click for full resolution):
Video:
Video Format......: AVC
Video Codec.......: x264 - core 115 r2008 4c552d8
Bitrate...........: 1 546 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 1.875
Resolution........: 720x384
Audio #1:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 192 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Japanese
