The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
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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Top 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
Naomi Nishida
Shoda Megumi
Mitsuko Ishii
Ryoko Yuui
Kazuyuki Aijima
Sumie Sasaki
Shiota Hisako
Satoshi Judai
Kohji Moritsugu
Mayu Watanabe
Shiro Sano
Susumu Terajima
Yamashita
Ren Osugi
Honma Seijiro
Isao Hashizume
Higashiyama Zenkichi
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