Date: From 9.00 p.m., 22 June 2012
Cast: Wakamura Mayumi, Sakamoto Masayuki, Watanabe Ikkei, Yajima Kenichi, Ishiguro Ken, Kusabue Mitsuko (guest star), Sano Shiro, Kimijima Asaya
Synopsis: At a room in a business hotel, Tsumura Kazuko (Wakamura Mayumi) holds the bloody body of dead young man in her arms as an aria from the opera Turandot plays loudly. Lured by the sounds coming from the room, other hotel guests take peer in and mistake Kazuko for the murderer. “No! I didn’t do it!” Kazuko frantically denies. Detective Ogasawara (Ishiguro Ken) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division interrogates her. She maintains that she was the first person to find the body and has no connection to the victim, Ninomiya Seiya (Kimijima Asaya). In truth, Kazuko and Ninomiya were seen buying beer at the hotel’s automatic vending machine. Kazuko asserts that she just happened to be there at the same time, but the police regard her with suspicion. “I’m always making the wrong choices. Even the dice I have cast for my life turns out badly every time … …” Her mother (Kusabue Mitsuko) placed high hopes on her and meddled, in an attempt to succeed through her daughter where she had failed. Writing has been Kazuko’s only outlet since childhood. However, the one time in her life that she basked in the glory of a newcomer award for literature, transformed into a nightmare following harsh criticism from the chairman of the awards committee (Sano Shiro). Kazuko ended up being unable to write three years after receiving the award. Tsubasa Publishing’s editor Natsukawa Takafumi (Sakamoto Masayuki) was the only one on her side. With his encouragement, she finally wrote a satisfying story. But her hopes were dashed when the manuscript was sent back to her by Natsukawa. In the depths of despair, Kazuko avoided Gunma where her mother was waiting, and stayed in Tokyo for a night. It was while she was demoralised that she got embroiled in the incident. Kazuko, who has gone from past newcomer award recpient to murder suspect, gets the attention of the media. Before the television cameras, she describes the incident, she describes the incident she encountered and censures the police for coming to the conclusion that the murderer is a female. Her unexpected comments interest the media which raises an uproar. Then, the chief editor, Kojima (Watanabe Ikkei) changes his attitude and proposes to publish Kazuko’s rejected manuscript. But Kazuko wants him to let her write a new story which will be about the murder case … …
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