Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ends up in a small town of Nijigaura in Yamaguchi Prefecture. There, he investigates a murder case involving a local enterprise, Kamoi Group, and the people related to it. Everyone in town thinks he's innocent except Kuryu, whose unorthodox investigation methods perplex not only the townspeople, but his colleagues as well.
Kensaku Sawada
Director
Takuya Kimura
Kohei Kuryu
Takako Matsu
Maiko Amamiya
Hiroshi Abe
Mitsugu Shibayama
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Yasushi Tsugaru
Haruka Ayase
Ririko Izumiya
Nene Otsuka
Misuzu Nakamura
Yoji Tanaka
Bartender
Naoko Iijima
Eriko Tatsumi
Masanobu Katsumura
Tatsuo Egami
Fumiyo Kohinata
Takayuki Suetsugu
Norito Yashima
Kenji Endo
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