CinemaOSMovie · 2016 · 1h 48m

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

62%(4)IMDbMysteryDramaTV 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...

Directed byMeiji Fujita

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 48m
Language
JA
Released
March 12, 2016
Studios
TV Asahi

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Ryoko Hirosue

Ryoko Hirosue

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa

Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura

Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase

Nana Katase

Hirota

Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou

Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Houka Kinoshita

Houka Kinoshita

Kojima

Naomi Nishida

Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Mitsuko Ishii

Mitsuko Ishii

Creative team
Directed by
Meiji Fujita
Meiji Fujita
Written by
Yo Takeyama

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