About halfway through the detective/crime drama “Sign”, the story of a certain Municipal Police Department , the Cases they take, and the two forensic teams who are at odds with each other even as they break down their most important cases.
On one hand we have the cold and precise doctor Akiyoshi Date (Toru Nakamura), a man who heads the Autopsy laboratory the police use in their cases.
Unfortunately, Date is a man swayed by politicians, power and money, and his autopsy results are sometimes tweaked, changed or covered up in favor of the police and politicians he partners up with.
Enter Takashi Yuzuki (Nao Omori). At first glance a grumpy old man with disheveled clothes and an impatient bark that sends his underlings for cover, it’s only when you see him doing his autopsies that he is a straight arrow who will never lie for anyone and always insists on disclosing the truth, no matter who he butts heads with. It’s this attitude that’s gotten him ostracized from the big businesses.
Newbie rookie Kei Nakazono (Marie Iitoyo) has just started her career in the Hospital but is already impressed with Yuzuki’s passionate quest for the truth, and she begs to be hired as his assistant.
Yuzuki gruffly says he doesn’t need her help, but her determination is strong and he takes her into his fold.
This seems like good news but will make her an enemy of Date and the power players he works with!
And in between these two forensic teams at odds with each other is Detective Chisato Izumi (Yasuko Matsuyuki), a seemingly apathetic woman who is rumored to care more about promotions within the department than her cases, and her wide-eyed and overeager underling Kirito Takahashi (Mahiro Takasugi) who knows that under her cold exterior is a capable Detective who wants justice served!
The joke is that she belittles him and often ignores his thorough and dedicated work and instead only uses his as an errand boy and when she needs someone to massage her shoulders!
But you know that when it comes down to it, she actually appreciates and respects him. And as for Takahashi, you know that there is no way in hell he’s inconvenienced when she asks him to rub her shoulders….GOOD GRAVY, if I was in that position, Matsuyuki would have to FIGHT me to get my hands OFF her!
Pretty good show so far- well, the crimes themselves are fairly pedestrian but the characters are interesting to watch. Plus, at only 9 episodes long, you can’t go wrong!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
