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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper(2016)

03/12/2016 (JP)MysteryDrama1h 48m
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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...

Meiji Fujita

Director

Movie Cast

Masakazu Tamura photo

Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Ryoko Hirosue photo

Ryoko Hirosue

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa photo

Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura photo

Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Taro Suruga photo

Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou photo

Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Naomi Nishida photo

Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

BudgetNot Given

RevenueNot Given

Production CompanyTV Asahi

Original LanguageJapanese

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