An absolutely RIVETING crime drama involving three sides of a seemingly cut-and-dried murder of a College Professor: a beautiful woman who was having an affair with him and now charged with his killing, a dedicated detective who believes she is innocent, and a gung-ho journalist covering the case and who may know more than he shows!
Rin Takanashi is the glamorous Kaho Tanimura. An associate professor under the victim, she was having an affair with him in hopes of furthering her career, until the rug is pulled out from under her with the murder allegations. But as she cannot remember a thing about the night in question, she finds herself unable to defend herself and simply hopes the truth will shake out.
Ryuta Sato is Sota Maruyama, a news journalist desperate for the one BIG SCOOP so he can get promoted up and be succesful enough to take care of his daughter whom he is fighting against his wife in court for custody. To this means, he will report anything about the case, personal, slanderous, or simply presumptive. But even HE has doubts about the woman’s guilt. And though he does not know it, he has information that may blow the whole case wide open…
Wasn’t sure what to expect diving in to this one, and at first it seemed like yet another “Incompetent Cops refuse to believe the Victim” scenarios a la Shinhannin Flag and the like, but once you realize the authorities are being willfully obtuse to the situation, you realize that this murder is but the tip of the iceberg and to get o the truth, one must go DEEPER!
At a mere 8 episodes of 30 minutes each, this one plays more like an extended TV movie that a drama series and I found myself blowing through each chapter, dying to see what will happen next!
