Suspicion (1982 film)

Suspicion (疑惑, Giwaku) is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. It is based on the novel with the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.^[1][2]

Suspicion
Japanese name
Kanji	疑惑
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Giwaku
Directed by	Yoshitaro Nomura
Written by	Motomu Furuta Motomu Furuta
Based on	Giwaku 1981 novel by Seichō Matsumoto
Produced by	Yoshitaro Nomura
Starring	Kaori Momoi
Cinematography	Takashi Kawamata
Music by	Yasushi Akutagawa
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	September 18, 1982 (1982-9-18)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Plot summary

A woman is saved from a car in which her lover drowned. The police are suspicious, because her affect is hardly that of a grieving spouse. When the dead man is revealed to be extremely rich she is charged with murder, and is assigned a divorced female lawyer to defend her case..

Cast

Actor	Role
Kaori Momoi	Kumako Onizawa
Shima Iwashita	Ritsuko Sahara
Akira Emoto	Shigekazu Akitani
Isuzu Yamada	Tokie Horiuchi
Takeshi Kaga	Katsuo Toyosaki
Norihei Miki	Tamotsu Kinoshita
Jiro Kawarazaki	Detective Kobayashi
Tanie Kitabayashi	Harue Shirakawa
Akiji Kobayashi	Chief of Police, Ishihara
Nenji Kobayashi	Judge Munakata
Akira Nagoya	Iwasaki
Tetsurō Tamba	Okamura

Awards and nominations

7th Hochi Film Award^[3]

• Won: Best Actress - Kaori Momoi

Other adaptations

• Giwaku (November 13, 1992) on FUJI TV, starring Ayumi Ishida.
• Giwaku (March 22, 2003) on TV Asahi, starring Kōichi Satō.^[4]
• Giwaku (January 24, 2009) on TV Asahi, starring Masakazu Tamura.^[5]
• Kokuhatsu Kokusen Bengonin (2011) (8 episodes) on TV Asahi, starring Masakazu Tamura.^[6]
• Giwaku (November 9, 2012) on FUJI TV, starring Takako Tokiwa.^[7]
• Giwaku (February 3, 2019) on TV Asahi, starring Ryōko Yonekura.^[8]