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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

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A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

108 mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

12 March 2016

Country

Japan

Cast

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

Sugimoto Ryuji

Ryoko Hirosue

Ryoko Hirosue

Shiota Yoshiko

Asami Mizukawa

Asami Mizukawa

Tasaka Fujiko

Yukiya Kitamura

Yukiya Kitamura

Shiota Hayao

Nana Katase

Nana Katase

Hirota

Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

Shoda Sakuji

Risa Sudou

Risa Sudou

Fukuda Umeko

Houka Kinoshita

Houka Kinoshita

Kojima

Naomi Nishida

Naomi Nishida

Shoda Megumi

Mitsuko Ishii

Mitsuko Ishii

Ryoko Yuui

Ryoko Yuui

Kazuyuki Aijima

Kazuyuki Aijima

Sumie Sasaki

Sumie Sasaki

Shiota Hisako

Satoshi Judai

Satoshi Judai

Kohji Moritsugu

Kohji Moritsugu

Mayu Watanabe

Mayu Watanabe

Shiro Sano

Shiro Sano

Susumu Terajima

Susumu Terajima

Yamashita

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Honma Seijiro

Isao Hashizume

Isao Hashizume

Higashiyama Zenkichi

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