Silent Parade

Silent Parade

2022 · 130 min · ★ 7.0 · Crime, Mystery

Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her murder. That suspect was previously arrested for another girl's murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence. Detective Shunpei Kusanagi investigated the prior murder case. The same suspect was then released due to a lack of evidence for the most recent murder case. The released man returned to his town, where everybody hated him. On the day of the autumn festival parade, the man was killed. Physicist Manabu Yukawa, Detective Kaoru Utsumi and Detective Shunpei Kusanagi work together on his case.

Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani · Written by Yasushi Fukuda

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Masaharu Fukuyama Manabu Yukawa
Ko Shibasaki Kaoru Utsumi
Kazuki Kitamura Shumpei Kusanagi
Kippei Shiina Naoki Niikura
Rei Dan Rumi Niikura
Yoh Yoshida Maya Miyazawa
Hiromasa Taguchi Shusaku Tojima
Naho Toda Machiko Namiki
Amane Okayama Tomoya Takagaki
Jun Murakami Kanichi Hasunuma
Kazuki Iio Yutaro Namiki
Yoshi Sakō Eiji Masumura

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