The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Movie·2016·1h 48m

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Directed By

Meiji Fujita

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

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The Story

Original title: 地方紙を買う女

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...

Written By

Yo Takeyama

Cinematography

Masayuki Kawada

Music

Takahito Eguchi

Editor

Takashi Tominaga

Themes

newspaperhusband wife relationshipblackmailreportertokyo, japantrainnovelist松本清張

Production House

TV Asahi

Audience Score

63%

4 votes

Skip13%
Timepass29%
Go for it37%
Perfection21%

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Cast

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Hirosue Ryoko

Hirosue Ryoko

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa

Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura

Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase

Nana Katase

Hirota

Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou

Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Houka Kinoshita

Houka Kinoshita

Kojima

Naomi Nishida

Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Mitsuko Ishii

Mitsuko Ishii

Ryoko Yuui

Ryoko Yuui

Kazuyuki Aijima

Kazuyuki Aijima

Sumie Sasaki

Sumie Sasaki

Shiota Hisako

Satoshi Judai

Kohji Moritsugu

Kohji Moritsugu

Mayu Watanabe

Mayu Watanabe

Shiro Sano

Shiro Sano

Susumu Terajima

Susumu Terajima

Yamashita

// crew

Crew

Meiji Fujita

Meiji Fujita

Director

Yo Takeyama

Screenplay

Takahito Eguchi

Original Music Composer

Takashi Tominaga

Editor

Masayuki Kawada

Director of Photography

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