The Incident

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.

• Yoshitarō NomuraDirector
• Yasushi AkutagawaOriginal Music Composer
• Kaneto ShindōScreenplay
• Masa MatsudaOriginal Music Composer

• Tetsuro TambaLawyer Kikuchi
• Shinsuke AshidaDA Okabe
• Shinobu OtakeYoshiko Sakai
• Toshiyuki NagashimaHiroshi Ueda
• Keiko MatsuzakaHatsuko Sakai
• Kei YamamotoTakeshi Hanai
• Junko NatsuKyôko Sakurai
• Asao SanoKihei Ueda
• Tanie KitabayashiKane Shinozaki
• Nobuko OtowaSumie Sakai
• Kō NishimuraGoichi Ômura
• Tsunehiko WataseTakeshi Hanai