Kyuukei no Kouya (DVD)

In 1945, Nogami Kenichitaro (Tamura Masakazu), a first secretary, is at a neutral country’s foreign mission which had announced his death from tuberculosis in a Swiss hospital just before the end of the war. In fact, Nogami is playing an active role behind the scenes in order to save Japan from destruction. He has abandoned his beloved wife and his nationality to live a solitary life in hiding … Then, a section of the visitors’ book from a Nara temple, which had been burglarised, is discovered near the body of a man who was strangled to death. Suzuki Jiro (Eguchi Yosuke), a former soldier and now an assistant inspector with the Metropolitan Police, and detective Soeda Shoichi (Ikuta Toma) of Setagaya precinct investigate the names that had been written in the visitors’ book, and grow suspicious about one name which bears the same handwriting as Nogami Kumiko’s (Higa Manami) father, Nogami Kenichitaro...

Kyuukei no Kouya (DVD) Details:

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• Title (romaji): Kyuukei no Kouya
• Title (english): Spherical Wilderness
• Format: Tanpatsu in two parts
• Genre: Drama
• Viewership ratings: Part 1 13%, part 2 10.9%
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Air Time: 21:00 - 22:52
• Broadcast period: 2010-Nov-26 to 2010-Nov-27