Movie

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

★ 6.3/10 · 4 votes 2016 1h 48m Released

MysteryDramaTV Movie

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 Sugimoto Ryuji Ryoko Hirosue Shiota Yoshiko Asami Mizukawa Tasaka Fujiko Yukiya Kitamura Shiota Hayao Nana Katase Hirota Taro Suruga Shoda Sakuji