

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
2016 · Movie · 1h 48m
MysteryDramaMade-for-TV
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...
Ratings
IMDb
5.7/10
Key crew
- Meiji FujitaDirector
- Takahito EguchiOriginal Music Composer
- Yo TakeyamaScreenplay
Cast
- Masakazu TamuraSugimoto Ryuji
- Hirosue RyokoShiota Yoshiko
- Asami MizukawaTasaka Fujiko
- Yukiya KitamuraShiota Hayao
- Nana KataseHirota
- Taro SurugaShoda Sakuji
- Risa SudouFukuda Umeko
- Houka KinoshitaKojima
- Naomi NishidaShoda Megumi
- Mitsuko IshiiCast
- Ryoko YuuiCast
- Kazuyuki AijimaCast
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Themes
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