The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)
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
Writer:
Yo Takeyama
https://www.tv-asahicontents.com/en/program/thewomanwhotookthelocalpaper
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Masakazu Tamura as Sugimoto Ryuji |
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Hirosue Ryoko as Shiota Yoshiko |
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Asami Mizukawa as Tasaka Fujiko |
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Yukiya Kitamura as Shiota Hayao |
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Nana Katase as Hirota |
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Taro Suruga as Shoda Sakuji |
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Risa Sudou as Fukuda Umeko |
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Houka Kinoshita as Kojima |
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Naomi Nishida as Shoda Megumi |
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Mitsuko Ishii as |
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Ryoko Yuui as |
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Kazuyuki Aijima as |
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Sumie Sasaki as Shiota Hisako |
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Satoshi Judai as |
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Kohji Moritsugu as |
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Mayu Watanabe as |
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Shiro Sano as |
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Susumu Terajima as Yamashita |
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Ren Osugi as Honma Seijiro |
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Isao Hashizume as Higashiyama Zenkichi |
| Directing | Meiji Fujita | Director |
| Writing | Seicho Matsumoto | Original Story |
| Sound | Takahito Eguchi | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Yo Takeyama | Screenplay |
| Editing | Takashi Tominaga | Editor |
| Lighting | Tatsuya Fujikawa | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Yasushi Takenaka | Sound |
| Camera | Masayuki Kawada | Director of Photography |