When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending more than four decades on death row, she hoped to tell the story of his life as a promising young boxer before his life was upended by tragedy.
It was a marked departure from the fascination with Hakamata as a presumed killer as a starting point, with the film describing a pugilist driven by ambitions of building a professional sporting career.
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