The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (地方紙を買う女) 8 years old

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...

Credits

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper Cast

Name Character
Susumu Terajima He was 52, now 60 years old as Yamashita
Nana Katase She was 34, now 42 years old as Hirota
Houka Kinoshita as Kojima
Shirō Sano He was 61, now 69 years old
Asami Mizukawa She was 32, now 40 years old as Tasaka Fujiko
Sumie Sasaki She was 87, 90 years old when she died as Shiota Hisako
Ren Osugi He was 64, 66 years old when he died as Honma Seijiro
Kazuyuki Aijima He was 54, now 62 years old
Naomi Nishida She was 44, now 52 years old as Shoda Megumi
Koji Moritsugu He was 72, now 81 years old
Ryōko Hirosue She was 35, now 43 years old as Shiota Yoshiko
Tarô Suruga He was 37, now 45 years old as Shoda Sakuji
Yukiya Kitamura He was 41, now 50 years old as Shiota Hayao
Isao Hashizume He was 74, now 82 years old as Higashiyama Zenkichi
Masakazu Tamura He was 72, now 80 years old as Sugimoto Ryuji
Mayu Watanabe She was 21, now 30 years old
Mitsuko Ishii She was 62, now 70 years old

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper Crew

Name Department
Yō Takeyama as Screenplay. He was 70 (now 78) years old Writing
Seichō Matsumoto as Original Story. He was 106 (82) years old when He died Writing
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (8 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, March 12, 2016
  • Runtime: 108 minutes