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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 12, 2016

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Mystery, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

地方紙を買う女

Production Companies

TV Asahi

Director

Meiji Fujita

Description

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...