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.
Kafuka Ogawa
Masaki Shibata
Inspector Nagoshi
Kafka's Mother
Mikako Kudo
Sunaoka
Tezuka
Detective Nakamura
Hatata Osamu
Hatata Kei
Detective Tatebayashi
Shibata Toshimitsu
Defence Counsel Shigure Nagamura
Prosecutor Michihiko Kusama
Professor Saneyuki Fujishiro
Kudo Keisuke as a child
Hatata Osamu (as a child )
Mikako as a child
Kudo Atsuko
Kudo Miyuki
Shibata Masaki - as Child
Asylum nurse
Iwaki Senjo
Inuyama's lawyer
Nogami Yoriko
Presiding Judge
Muramatsu
Patient
Inuyama's detective
