Director makes film about long-term death-row inmate
Director makes film about long-term death-row inmate
A desire to depict one man spending half a century in solitary confinement on death row is what spurred Junichi Saito, 45,
to write his first movie script.
Saito's upcoming film, which translates as "Promise, The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, the Life of a Death Row Inmate",
has as its main character Masaru Okunishi, 87, a man who after being found not guilty in his first trial was then given the death penalty
over a deadly 1961 wine-poisoning case in Nabari, Mie Prefecture.
A decision for a retrial was temporarily granted but then turned down, and the case is even now under review for retrial.
© The Mainichi
A desire to depict one man spending half a century in solitary confinement on death row is what spurred Junichi Saito, 45,
to write his first movie script.
Saito's upcoming film, which translates as "Promise, The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, the Life of a Death Row Inmate",
has as its main character Masaru Okunishi, 87, a man who after being found not guilty in his first trial was then given the death penalty
over a deadly 1961 wine-poisoning case in Nabari, Mie Prefecture.
A decision for a retrial was temporarily granted but then turned down, and the case is even now under review for retrial.
© The Mainichi
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