7.058 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestMurakami meets with Matsuda in Kohei's hospital room. Mayumi prepares to sue the government, and then asks Matsuda to come with her to meet someone.
A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.
Acting
Yonekura's controlled fury could cut glass.
Direction
Fujii turns press conferences into boxing matches.
Writing
Every source meeting drips with paranoia.
Ryoko Yonekura
Anna Matsuda
Go Ayano
Shinichi Murakami
Ryusei Yokohama
Ryo Kinoshita
Shinobu Terajima
Mayumi Suzuki
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Kazuya Suzuki
Masato Hagiwara
Kohei Matsuda
Yusuke Santamaria
Shinjiro Toyoda
Tetsushi Tanaka
Tomoya Tada
Koji Ohkura
Yoshikazu Yagawa
Tokio Emoto
Daiki Sato
Kaho Tsuchimura
Harumi Yashiro
Karin Ono
Mayu Yokokawa
Shiro Sano
Hisashi Nakagawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the 2019 film which itself adapted Isoko Mochizuki's real reporting on the Abe administration scandals—this is basically fictionalized recent Japanese history.
The series condenses what took Mochizuki years to uncover into six episodes; she reportedly found the pacing 'flattering but exhausting.'
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