Your mom's on trial for murdering your stepdad—pass the popcorn.
One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to take the case of Narumi's mother, Kimiko Torii, indicted for the murder of her second husband, company president Takefumi Torii. Kimiko married Takefumi 19 years ago, making him Narumi's stepfather. The couple are questioning whether Kimiko had the intent to kill...
Acting
Kinya Kitaoji's weary lawyer eyes say everything.
Writing
Testimony scenes that reframe everything you assumed.
Director
Hiroshi Ikezoe
Kinya Kitaoji
Shuichi Itami
Rio Matsumoto
Orie Itami
Tetsu Kayama
Naoto Kase
Yorie Yamashita
Kazumi Honda
Aki Maeda
Narumi Suzumura
Yuma Ishigaki
Takuya Suzumura
Touta Tawaragi
Takuya Nakayama
Officer Arimura
Ayako Sawada
Motoko Kayahara
Jiro Dan
Takefumi Torii
Hiroo Ôtaka
Tomio Iwashita
Akira Otaka
Masayo Umezawa
Kayoko Uchimura
Kisuke Iida
Lieutenant Kamio
Goro Oishi
Keigo Takashina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Case 17 is part of a long-running Japanese TV-movie franchise based on bestselling mystery novels by Kyotaro Nishimura.
Stepfamily murder trials exploded in Japanese pop fiction during the 2010s, reflecting anxieties about aging populations and inheritance disputes.
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