Matsumoto Kiyoharu's final mystery novel was filmed for the first time, starring Hiroaki Murakami and Takanori Jinuchi

According to sources, the last suspense work of Matsumoto Kiyoharu (1909-1992), the founder of the "social mystery novel", was first filmed and televisioned, and will be broadcast on TV Tokyo at 9 pm on July 2. Set in Tokyo and Hokkaido, the story is intertwined with political factors and human emotions, and is a masterpiece of sociological reasoning with the characteristics of Matsumoto. The cast includes Hiroaki Murakami, Takanori Shinuchi, Michiko Tanaka, and Honami Suzuki, who has starred in TV Tokyo for the second time in 29 years.

Murakami and Shinuchi are the fourth collaboration after Kiyoharu Matsumoto's series of works such as Black Painting Collections – Grass (2015), Lost Funeral (2016), and Error (2017). The whereabouts of the mayor of Hokkaido's Kitaura City are unknown, and The Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division, Which is responsible for the case, is played by Murakami. Shinuchi plays Shuji Komori of the Hokkaido Police Criminal Division's Search Division.

The secretary who devotes himself to assisting the mayor and desperately searching for the whereabouts of the mayor, Arishima Suee, is a character who is haunted by countless mysteries and is played by Nanami Suzuki. In addition, Michiko Tanaka, who has excelled in Doctor X ~ Surgeon Gate Unknown Son ~ (TV Asahi) and the Ōkawa drama "Saigoden", plays Aoki Natsumi, the inspector general of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Agency, who investigates the case with Tashiro.

Murakami said: "The original work was Kiyoharu Matsumoto's last suspenseful work, and he starred in this drama with the mentality of having the honor of starring in the masterpiece of the master. There are not only subtle tricks, but also the human variety in the case. The determination of the criminal police (Tashiro) to solve the case also infected others, and the case gradually became clear. This part is also very interesting, I hope you can pay more attention. ”

Brief introduction

The mayor of Kitaura City, Hokkaido, suddenly disappeared while on a business trip to Tokyo. After the Metropolitan Police Department issues a search warrant, police officer Tashiro (Murakami) and others begin a search and discover that the mayor's beautiful secretary, Arishima (Suzuki), has some inexplicably suspicious behavior. At the same time, the political enemy of the missing mayor also came to Tokyo, but he was also confused... Two missing politicians, two local home-grown liquors... In the interweaving of love and hate, with unexpected methods, let the murderer of the mayor surface.