A dead man hands you a floppy disk. Welcome to 2001, detective.
While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...
Direction
Murakawa's cramped train compositions build claustrophobia
Production
Authentic Hokkaido railway locations, no studio fakery
Acting
Takahashi's weary Totsugawa carries decades of unsolved cases
Director
Tōru Murakawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the 40th installment in the Travel Mystery series, which ran from 1981 to 2005 with nearly annual TV movies.
The Soya Main Line's remote stations feature prominently; the series helped popularize 'train mystery' tourism in Japan. The floppy disk plot device was already nostalgic when it aired.
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