Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer

Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer

120 mins | Dec. 1, 2014

Based on the writings of a true life, vision-impaired lawyer comes a story about a blind man who manages to pass the extremely difficult bar exam and earn his lawyer’s license. Long desiring to help the weak, Kensuke Okochi gets a job at an attorney’s office while he and his wife, also blind, look forward to their first child. When a plaintiff in a divorce case decides to withdraw from litigation, Kensuke worries at first that it has to do with his own perceived inadequacies as a lawyer, but a few days later, he is visited by the female plaintiff, Satomi, showing injuries to her body. While it appears an open and shut case of domestic violence with an audio recording as proof, Kensuke detects a “certain scent” coming from the plaintiff which gives him pause as to her real intentions.

Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer

120 mins | Dec. 1, 2014

Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer
Based on the writings of a true life, vision-impaired lawyer comes a story about a blind man who manages to pass the extremely difficult bar exam and earn his lawyer’s license. Long desiring to help the weak, Kensuke Okochi gets a job at an attorney’s office while he and his wife, also blind, look forward to their first child. When a plaintiff in a divorce case decides to withdraw from litigation, Kensuke worries at first that it has to do with his own perceived inadequacies as a lawyer, but a few days later, he is visited by the female plaintiff, Satomi, showing injuries to her body. While it appears an open and shut case of domestic violence with an audio recording as proof, Kensuke detects a “certain scent” coming from the plaintiff which gives him pause as to her real intentions.
Producers TBS, Telepack
Original title 全盲の僕が弁護士になった理由
Directors Kosuke Suzuki
Writers Makoto Oogoda, Masaya Ozaki

Cast

Tori Matsuzaka

as Kensuke Okochi

Nao Minamisawa

as Natsumi Okochi

Mari Hoshino

as Satomi Ando

Taiga Nakano

as Masaki Yamanishi

Jiro Sato

as Isao Yamaoka

Hidekazu Mashima

as Kazuya Ando

Kei Yamamoto

as Kenji Minagawa

Shigeru Izumiya

as Toyoshige Shimura

Keiko Toda

as Michiyo Tanabe

Satoshi Jinbo

as Okada