在这部48 years 沈黙の独裁者纪录片片中,Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer, was sentenced to death in 1968 for mass murder and held on death row for 48 years, the longest stint in history. In 2014, he was granted an immediate release when the Shizuoka district court found that the evidence against him had been fabricated. Mr. Hakamada now lives peacefully with his sister in Hamamatsu. This documentary was filmed in 2015, one year after Mr. Hakamada’s discharge. In interviewing Mr. Hakamada, now 79 years old and still suffering from prison psychosis, this record attempts to capture the immeasurable solitude of nearly half a century. Walking alongside Hakamada through his labyrinth of delusions, amidst fading memories and the powerful will to victory, it glimpses into Hakamada’s complicated psychology, a web of opaque logic warped by his life’s predicament. 元プロボクサー・袴田巌は、1968年、無実を訴えつつも強盗殺人の容疑で死刑判決を言い渡され、史上最長の48年間を独房で過ごしました。しかし2014年、静岡地裁は死刑判決の決め手となった証拠について、捏造された可能性があることを認めました。こうして袴田さんは釈放され、現在は郷里の静岡県浜松市で、姉の秀子さんと平穏な生活を送っています。 私は、釈放から一年が経った2015年、79歳になった袴田さんに出会い、彼の心に今も残りつづけている、48年間という計り知れない孤独についてインタビューしました。完治していない拘禁症状のために生じる袴田さんの妄想、風化しつつある記憶、そして無実を証明するために勝つのだという決意、こうした様々な情報と情動が複雑に入り組んだ迷宮が、そこにはありました。この映画は、袴田さんの心の迷宮を辿りながら、人生の苦境にねじ曲げられた彼の精神と、そこに現れる驚くべき明快な論理の双方を、記録したものです。
Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer, was sentenced to death in 1968 for mass murder and held on death row for 48 years, the longest stint in history. In 2014, he was granted an immediate release when the Shizuoka district court found that the evidence against him had been fabricated. Mr. Hakamada now lives peacefully with his sister in Hamamatsu. This documentary was filmed in 2015, one year after Mr. Hakamada's discharge. In interviewing Mr. Hakamada, now 79 years old and still suffering from prison psychosis, this record attempts to capture the immeasurable solitude of nearly half a century. Walking alongside Hakamada through his labyrinth of delusions, amidst fading memories and the powerful will to victory, it glimpses into Hakamada's complicated psychology, a web of opaque logic warped by his life's predicament.
