The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

All the adventure a man can live, he lives. 2016-03-12 Japan 108 Min. PG-13
6.5 2 votes
Mystery, Drama, TV Movie

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...

Cast

Masakazu Tamura is Sugimoto Ryuji
Sugimoto Ryuji
Ryoko Hirosue is Shiota Yoshiko
Shiota Yoshiko
Asami Mizukawa is Tasaka Fujiko
Tasaka Fujiko
Yukiya Kitamura is Shiota Hayao
Shiota Hayao
Nana Katase is Hirota
Hirota
Taro Suruga is Shoda Sakuji
Shoda Sakuji
Risa Sudou is Fukuda Umeko
Fukuda Umeko
Naomi Nishida is Shoda Megumi
Shoda Megumi
Sumie Sasaki is Shiota Hisako
Shiota Hisako
Susumu Terajima is Yamashita
Yamashita
Ren Osugi is Honma Seijiro
Honma Seijiro
Isao Hashizume is Higashiyama Zenkichi
Higashiyama Zenkichi