Movie: The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Top 10 Billed Cast

Masakazu Tamura
田村正和

Sugimoto Ryuji

Ryoko Hirosue
広末涼子

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa
水川あさみ

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura
北村有起哉

Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase
片瀬那奈

Hirota

Taro Suruga
駿河太郎

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou
須藤理彩

Fukuda Umeko

Houka Kinoshita
木下ほうか

Kojima

Naomi Nishida
西田尚美

Shoda Megumi

Mitsuko Ishii
石井苗子

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    地方紙を買う女

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    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...

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    2016-03-12

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    6.5

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