As any regular reader of this site knows, we are very big fans of Miki Satoshi's Adrift In Tokyo so the prospects of the director re-teaming with star Jo Odagiri for a new television series is very good news indeed. That it's a series that has me thinking Twin Peaks is even better. Here's how it is being described at Tokyograph:
"Atami no Sousakan" begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp national investigator searching for the truth behind the incident, which leads back to a seemingly peaceful town.
That it's television is going to make it significantly harder to see than it would be if it were a feature but with these two, it's going to be worth the effort. Time slot and start date have not yet been announced.
"Atami no Sousakan" begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp national investigator searching for the truth behind the incident, which leads back to a seemingly peaceful town.
That it's television is going to make it significantly harder to see than it would be if it were a feature but with these two, it's going to be worth the effort. Time slot and start date have not yet been announced.
Ohhh... So interesting and it's going to be soooo hard to track down. Fingers crossed.
It's worth remembering Miki and Odagiri both first worked together on the TV comedy drama Jikou Keisatsu/Kaette kita Jikou Keisatsu in 2006/07. His co-star from that series, Aso Kumiko, also had a cameo in Tenten, giving Odagiri's character a funny look like she recognised him from somewhere...
From the description, it seems like this new show could be quite similar to Jikou Keisatsu (in which Odagiri played a pencil-pushing police official who investigated unsolved/lapsed cases in his free time), which is no bad thing of course.