The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

Directed by Meiji Fujita

Mystery, Drama, TV Movie · 1h 48m

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...

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Cast

Masakazu Tamura Sugimoto Ryuji Ryoko Hirosue Shiota Yoshiko Asami Mizukawa Tasaka Fujiko Yukiya Kitamura Shiota Hayao Nana Katase Hirota Taro Suruga Shoda Sakuji Risa Sudou Fukuda Umeko Houka Kinoshita Kojima Naomi Nishida Shoda Megumi Mitsuko Ishii Ryoko Yuui Kazuyuki Aijima

Crew

Director
Meiji Fujita
Screenplay
Yo Takeyama
Director of Photography
Masayuki Kawada
Original Music Composer
Takahito Eguchi
Editor
Takashi Tominaga

Details

Original title
地方紙を買う女
Release date
2016-03-12
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Mystery, Drama, TV Movie
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
TV Asahi