An Uneven Murder Mystery with “Boku No Yabai Tsuma”

Hideaki Ito as Kohei Mochizuke

Yoshino Kimura as Maria Mochizuke

On paper, the new Hideaki Ito/Kimura Yoshino mystery “Boku No Yabai Tsuma” should really gripping and captivating me, but somehow, this drama is done so clunky, rather than being a nail biter, everyone in this drama seems so inept that I ended up getting irritated more than titillated. Boku No Yabai Tsuma tells the tale of a Man named Mochizuki Kohei (Ito) who plots to poison his wife Maria (Kimura) to inherit her fortune and be with his mistresses Kitasato Anna(Aibu) and comes home to find she has been kidnapped, at first elated that she is gone, the tables get turned when HE becomes the main suspect of her disappearance!

Secret Affair: Kohei and Anna (Saki Aibu)

The Poison to Do the Job...

In theory, this drama’s plot is a LOT like the highly excellent Elmore Leonard story “Life of Crime”, where a man’s wife is kidnapped and he’s informed that if he doesn’t pay them a million dollars they will kill her but the guy HATES his wife and is HOPING the kidnappers do away with her. 

Ryuta Sato plays a Homicide detective on the case of the kidnapped wife who is first to suspect Ito as the culprit, but even so, he’s not even doing a passable job in his sleuthing. At the crime scene, he sees two cocoa mugs in the sink, one is the wife’s and one is the husband’s, instead of thinking, GET DNA on this MUG, the LAST person to see the wife drank from it!”, HIS first thought is, “the husband’s acting fishy, let’s investigate him! Oh, and we’ve also got Sasaki Kuranosuke in another of his patently “what’s–this-guy-up-to” roles. 

Ryuta Sato

Hideaki Ito

Yoshino Kimura

Saki Aibu

Kuranosuke Sasaki

Ah well, we’ll see how far this drama goes. They’re starting to introduce the backstory that the wife had a side of her that the husband never knew, etc, etc and maybe this drama is going to go more along the route of GONE GIRL? If that’s the case, it might perk up the show, but so far I can only cross fingers!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com