Woman in Witness Protection
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- Movie: Woman in Witness Protection
- Romaji: Marutai no onna
- Japanese: マルタイの女
- Director: Juzo Itami
- Writer: Juzo Itami
- Producer:
- Cinematographer: Yonezo Maeda
- Release Date: September 27, 1997
- Runtime: 131 min.
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Isono Biwako is a vain, shallow, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder and chooses to stand up to a deadly cult and its thoroughly slimy defense attorney. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police provide her with a specially trained witness protection officers until the trial. In the interim, the lives of the actress and everyone surrounding her are changed in unexpected ways.
Cast
- Nobuko Miyamoto - Isono Biwako
- Masahiko Nishimura - Detective Tachibana
- Yuji Murata - Detective Chikamatsu
- Kazuya Takahashi - Oki Tamayo
- Masahiko Tsugawa - Shingyoji temple chief clerk
- Toru Emori - Nihonmatsu, Defence lawyer
- Akira Nagoya - Hatano, Older detective with glasses
- Taro Yamamoto - Nakamura
- Houka Kinoshita - Eiji
- Daisuke Ryu - Religious cult leader
- Yoshimasa Kondo - Koshimizu Maneja
- Aki Takejo - Assistant Miwa
- Noboru Mitani - Theatre Producer
- Toru Masuoka - Prosecutor
- Akira Takarada - Police commissioner
- Naomasa Rokudaira - Detective Inamura
- Hikaru Ijyuin - Fool detective
- Mansaku Fuwa - Senior Detective
- Akiko Saotome - Midori
- Yoshihiro Kato - Theatrical troupe producer
- Hijiri Kojima - Nurse
- Noborou Yano - Tomeokiba's duty official
- Yan Yano - Tomeokiba's duty official
- Yoshiki Arizono - Criminal in movie
- Mirei Asaoka - Mrs. Nakamura
- Katsuya Kobayashi - Movie Producer
- Choei Takahashi - Kitamura's group leader
- Tetsu Watanabe - Detective in a movie
- Takehiro Murata
- Hideo Murota
- Shintaro Takado
- Daisuke Takahashi
