
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.

as Kafuka Ogawa

as Masaki Shibata

as Inspector Nagoshi

as Kafka's Mother

as Mikako Kudo

as Sunaoka

as Tezuka

as Detective Nakamura

as Hatata Osamu

as Hatata Kei

as Detective Tatebayashi

as Shibata Toshimitsu

as Defence Counsel Shigure Nagamura

as Prosecutor Michihiko Kusama

as Professor Saneyuki Fujishiro

as Kudo Keisuke as a child

as Hatata Osamu (as a child )

as Mikako as a child

as Kudo Atsuko

as Kudo Miyuki

as Shibata Masaki - as Child

as Asylum nurse

as Iwaki Senjo

as Inuyama's lawyer

as Nogami Yoriko

as Presiding Judge

as Muramatsu

as Patient

as Inuyama's detective