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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

1h 48m | PG-13

⭐ 6.5 / 10

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...

Director: Meiji Fujita

Studio: TV Asahi

Genre: Mystery, Drama, TV Movie

Video: 720p

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Cast

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

as Sugimoto Ryuji

Ryoko Hirosue

Ryoko Hirosue

as Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa

Asami Mizukawa

as Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura

Yukiya Kitamura

as Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase

Nana Katase

as Hirota

Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

as Shoda Sakuji