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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Mar 12, 2016
1h 48m
★ 6.5

Overview

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...

Genres

Mystery
Drama
TV Movie

Production Companies

TV Asahi

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Cast

Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Masakazu Tamura

Ryoko Hirosue

Shiota Yoshiko

Ryoko Hirosue

Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Asami Mizukawa

Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Yukiya Kitamura

Nana Katase

Hirota

Nana Katase

Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Taro Suruga

Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Risa Sudou

Houka Kinoshita

Kojima

Houka Kinoshita

Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Naomi Nishida

Mitsuko Ishii

Mitsuko Ishii

Ryoko Yuui

Ryoko Yuui

Kazuyuki Aijima

Kazuyuki Aijima

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