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Release Date:
March 12, 2016
Original Title:
地方紙を買う女
Alternate Titles:
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
买地方报的女人:作家杉本隆治的推理
Genres:
Drama | Mystery
Production Companies:
TV Asahi
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 108
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...
Director:
Meiji Fujita
Director of Photography:
Masayuki Kawada
Editor:
Takashi Tominaga
Lighting Technician:
Tatsuya Fujikawa
Original Music Composer:
Takahito Eguchi
Original Story:
Seicho Matsumoto
Screenplay:
Yo Takeyama
Sound:
Yasushi Takenaka
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