Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors (2016)
Original title: 終着駅の牛尾刑事VS事件記者冴子 生存者
Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors is a 2016 Japanese-language mystery movie directed by Kazuo Ikehiro, with a running time of 1h 59m. It stars Tsurutaro Kataoka, Maki Mizuno and Natsumi Nanase.
The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person who didn't have any troubles. Kawagishi worked for a company in Kofu City in Yamanashi, leaving behind his wife and daughter on Awaji Island in Hyogo. He seems to have started working as a laborer 3 years ago, having fallen on hard times when the company went bankrupt. Saeko Kawamura, Ushio's reporter friend, calls him wanting to talk about the case. According to Saeko, Kawagishi was one of the survivors of the "bus hijack arson case" that happened three years ago. In the bus hijack arson case, a man who was hallucinating under the influence of dangerous drugs set fire to an intercity bus going to Shinjuku and departing from Kofu Station...
Cast
- Tsurutaro Kataoka as Masanao Ushio
- Maki Mizuno as Saeko Kawamura
- Natsumi Nanase as Naoko Kitazawa
- Kanji Tsuda as Yoshikatsu Tarumi
- Mao Miyaji as Yukiko Kawagishi
- Hiro Komura as Kyoko Kawagishi
- Yukijiro Hotaru as Kazuyoshi Kawagishi
- Satoshi Jinbo as Katsuya Yamazaki
- Kenjiro Nashimoto as Detective Nagae
- Yoshiaki Umegaki as Koichiro Iwase
- Takeyuki Yue as Kazuo Mita
- Sokyu Fujita as Kozo Ota