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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Mar 12, 2016 · 1h 48m
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Mystery
Drama
TV Movie

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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
Directed by Meiji Fujita

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Status
Released
Original language
JA
Budget
—
Revenue
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Production
TV Asahi
Country
JP

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