The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper  - Movie (2016)

Original title

地方紙を買う女

Released

3/12/2016

Origin country

JP

Genre

Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Production companies

TV Asahi

Budget

Revenue

Runtime

1hr 48min

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...

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