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Shônen - Based on the true story of Iwao Nakamoto and Hatsue Deguchi.

A chance accident caused one of the Japan's most controversial series of crimes in the 1960s. When Deguchi received in April 1966 the then considerable sum of 20,000 yen from the driver of a car that hit her and caused a minor injury, she and common-law husband Nakamoto struck on a plan that would earn their family millions of yen.

The pair forced Nakamoto's 10-year-old son and their 3-year-old son to walk into the sides of slow-traveling cars. Once they'd been hit, the kids promptly hit the ground and pretended that a fatal blow had struck them. The tears would flow freely and Nakamoto would rush across to the party "at fault" in the accident and demand compensation in return for not suing them.

The family worked on the scheme for months until they were finally caught. They ended up pulling off about 60 scams that netted them over 2 million yen.

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama and Tetsuo Abe

1969 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 100 MINUTES