The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
地方紙を買う女
Release: 2016-03-12
·Runtime: 108m
·★ 6.5
Mystery
Drama
TV Movie
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TV Asahi
Cast
Isao Hashizume
as Higashiyama Zenkichi
Masakazu Tamura
as Sugimoto Ryuji
Nana Katase
as Hirota
Risa Sudou
as Fukuda Umeko
Houka Kinoshita
as Kojima
Naomi Nishida
as Shoda Megumi
Kazuyuki Aijima
Mayu Watanabe
Shiro Sano
Mitsuko Ishii
Ryoko Yuui
Ren Osugi
as Honma Seijiro
Yukiya Kitamura
as Shiota Hayao
Taro Suruga
as Shoda Sakuji
Kohji Moritsugu
Ryoko Hirosue
as Shiota Yoshiko
Asami Mizukawa
as Tasaka Fujiko
Sumie Sasaki
as Shiota Hisako
Susumu Terajima
as Yamashita
