Season 7 • Episode 10
LatestSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
Acting
Takaya Kamikawa's restrained warmth anchors every episode.
Writing
Victim backstories hit harder than most crime dramas dare.
Production
Objects become characters; the prop department understood the assignment.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series reflects Japan's Buddhist concept of 'nokori'—lingering attachments of the dead—and treats forensic science almost as spiritual practice.
Takaya Kamikawa reportedly requested that Itomura never wear a wedding ring, keeping the character's loneliness ambiguous and universal.
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