The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

2016
1h 48m
6.3

6.3/10

3 votes • View on IMDb
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...

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Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
TV Asahi
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Keywords

newspaper husband wife relationship blackmail reporter tokyo, japan train novelist 松本清張

Quick Facts

Original Title 地方紙を買う女
Release Date March 12, 2016
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt5245816
Website Visit Site

Cast

Masakazu Tamura
Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Hirosue Ryoko
Hirosue Ryoko

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa
Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura
Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase
Nana Katase

Hirota

Taro Suruga
Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou
Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Houka Kinoshita
Houka Kinoshita

Kojima

Naomi Nishida
Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Mitsuko Ishii
Mitsuko Ishii

Ryoko Yuui
Ryoko Yuui

Kazuyuki Aijima
Kazuyuki Aijima

Key Crew

Meiji Fujita
Director
Yo Takeyama
Screenplay