
Film
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
2016 · 1h 48m · Mystery · Drama · TV Movie
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- 5.7
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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...
Cast

Masakazu Tamura
Sugimoto Ryuji

Hirosue Ryoko
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
Crew
- Meiji FujitaDirector
- Yo TakeyamaScreenplay
- Masayuki KawadaDirector of Photography
- Takahito EguchiOriginal Music Composer
- Takashi TominagaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 12, 2016
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama, TV Movie
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