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The Motive (2004)
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie · 2h 40m
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Cast
Takehiro Murata
Ishikawa, Police
Ryo Kase
Yuji Yashiro
Toshie Negishi
Satoko Sunagawa
Saki Terashima
Nobuko Katakura
Takuro Atsuki
Takahiro Koito
Wakaba Irie
Ittoku Kishibe
Caretaker
Tokie Hidari
Toshiko Takarai
Kyusaku Shimada
Shin'ya Ohwada
Yoshio Sato
Takahito Hosoyamada
Yasutaka Takarai
Toru Minegishi
Katsuyuki Akiyoshi
Crew
- Director
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Screenplay
- Fumio Ishimori, Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Novel
- Miyuki Miyabe
- Director of Photography
- Yudai Kato
- Original Music Composer
- Nobuhiko Obayashi, Kosuke Yamashita
- Producer
- Yukihiro Toda, Terumichi Yamazaki, Kyōko Ōbayashi, Tsuru Masaaki
Details
- Original title
- 理由
- Release date
- 2004-12-18
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- PSC, WOWOW