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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

First aired on Mar 12, 2016

Runtime: 108mins

70%

Genres: 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...

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Masakazu Tamura | Sugimoto Ryuji
Ryoko Hirosue | Shiota Yoshiko
Asami Mizukawa | Tasaka Fujiko
Yukiya Kitamura | Shiota Hayao
Nana Katase | Hirota
Taro Suruga | Shoda Sakuji
Featured Crew
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Meiji Fujita | Director
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Seicho Matsumoto | Original Story
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Yo Takeyama | Screenplay
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Takahito Eguchi | Original Music Composer
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Takashi Tominaga | Editor
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Masayuki Kawada | Director of Photography