A sister's revenge email sent, a body found — but who really died in Hakone?
Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-investigate a car accident. Akiko, the wife of Yasuo Furuki, a painter from Hakone, died in the accident 5 months earlier by crashing into a guardrail. Nakamura's client, Akiko's younger sister Yuki Izeki, suspects that she was actually murdered by Furuki for insurance money. Overwhelmed by these thoughts, Yuki had sent an email reading "I'll never forgive that man. I'm going to kill him and avenge my big sister," announcing a murder to Nakamura. In the middle of their conversation, Nakamura receives a call from Hakone PD confirming that Yuki had turned herself in that morning...
Acting
Hideki Takahashi's weary warmth as the veteran inspector
Production
Hakone's autumn foliage as gorgeous alibi and accomplice
Director
Tōru Murakawa
Hideki Takahashi
Inspector Totsugawa
Mari Hoshino
Yuki Izeki
Akiko Hinagata
Yumiko Kishimoto
Takashi Ukaji
Detective Matsuyama
Momiji Yamamura
Detective Hojo
Yasufumi Hayashi
Shinichi Nakamura
Yûki Akimoto
Kyoko Mochizuki
Eriko Moriwaki
Akiko Furuki
Taiki Nakabayashi
Jiro Morikawa
Anri Ban
Detective Kubota
Masahiro Sato
Detective Kobayashi
Masashi Sekito
Detective Hanazawa
Leo Morimoto
Detective Nishimoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the 67th film in a franchise spanning four decades — Hideki Takahashi has played Totsugawa since 1992, making him Japan's longest-running cinematic detective.
Kyotaro Nishimura's 'Travel Mystery' series pioneered the 'tourism procedural' subgenre, where solving the crime requires understanding local geography and transit systems.
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