A child's drawing predicts a 16-year-old murder. Coincidence—or something darker?
Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestWhile the police search his home, the suspect flees with a hostage. While trying to figure out why Akio never harmed Seiko, Shigeko has an epiphany.
An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hagitani visits Shigeko Maehata who works for a small editing company. Toshiko tells Shigeko that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi might have a special ability to see other people's memories. She pulls out a picture drawn by Hitoshi. The picture has a girl with a grey colored face lying in a house that has a bat shaped weather vane on its roof. The picture seems to depict the incident involving the Doizaki couple. Shigeko decides to do some research, but Hitoshi dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the attorney for the Doizaki couple tells their second daughter Seiko that the couple has cut off all ties with her. Around that time, a female high student is confined.
Acting
Yukie Nakama's restrained grief anchors every scene.
Direction
Gonno lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
Supernatural elements feel earned, not cheap.
Yukie Nakama
Maehata Shigeko
Hitomi Kuroki
Takahashi Harumi
Kaho
Doizaki Seiko
Kaoru Kobayashi
Doizaki Gen
Nobuaki Kaneko
Miwa Akio
Miyuki Matsuda
Doizaki Kouko
Naomi Nishida
Hagiya Toshiko
Masahiro Komoto
Maehata Shoji
Narushi Ikeda
Akitsu Shingo
Go Riju
Nozaki Eiji
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Inoue Tatsuya
Shugo Oshinari
Amikawa Koichi
Sairi Ito
Doizaki Akane
Rin Furukawa
Sato Momoko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The bat weather vane is a real architectural feature in some rural Japanese homes, making Hitoshi's specific detail deeply uncanny.
The series adapts Kaoruko Himeno's novel, part of a wave of 2010s Japanese crime fiction exploring maternal violence and repressed family history.
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