The full cast of the WOWOW drama "Drama W: Yoru no Dohyo," starring actor Yoshioka Hidetaka, has been announced, revealing that Kumi Takiuchi, Takasugi Mahiro, and others will appear.
The original work is a mystery novel "Yoru no Dohyo" (Chuokoron-Shinsha) by Akira Ashizawa, which won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel and Short Story Series. It is a full-scale social mystery in which detective Shotaro Taira (Yoshioka), who is in charge of a murder case that occurred in 1996, investigates the footsteps of suspect Gen Akutsu (Yojiro Noda) and the reason for the murder, while approaching the "truth" of the case. When the dots of the characters are connected around a certain "suspect," an unexpected "dark side of society" is brought to light...
Takiuchi will play Nagao Toyoko, a classmate of Akutsu, played by Noda, who hides him, while Takasugi will play Oya Keigo, a young detective who teams up with detective Taira (Yoshioka) and works hard to uncover the truth.
Other cast members were also announced. Kotani Kokai will play Hashimoto Haru, a sixth grader who meets the suspect Akutsu through a certain incident. Kobayashi Yuujin will play Nakamura Ousuke, Haru's classmate. Emi Kurara will play Taira's wife Sumiko, and Sakamoto Manato will play the Taira couple's only son, Takanori, a high school student with troubles. Yoshioka Mutsuo will play Hashimoto Taiyo, Haru's father, and Asakura Aki will play Maki Miwa, Akutsu's ex-wife.
Furthermore, Shohei Uno will play Togawa Katsuhiro, a cram school instructor who was murdered by Akutsu. Masato Wada will play Izutsu Isao, the head of the criminal investigation department and the superior of Taira and Oya, and Midoriko Kimura will play Eiko, Akutsu's mother who holds the key to the story. Konosuke Harada Harada will play Akutsu's childhood, and Reiya Masaki will play Haru and Haru's homeroom teacher.
"Drama W: Yoru no Dohyo" will be broadcast every Sunday at 10pm from September 14th. There are 5 episodes in total.
