Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
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The people behind it
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Seiji Uemura
Sachiko Hidari
Kaneko Nagai
Taketoshi Naitō
Lawyer Kondo
Chōko Iida
Tsuna Uemura
Teruo Matsuyama
Takeshi Kojima
Ichirō Sugai
Lawyer Yamamoto
Yoshi Katō
Oshima
Junkichi Orimoto
Detective Sugita
Kyū Sazanka
Shiraki
Shinsuke Ashida
Yoshii
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