The fourth episode of NHK's "Saturday Drama 'After the Earthquake'" (General TV, Saturday 10pm), based on a short story published by Haruki Murakami after the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, will be broadcast on April 26th. The fourth episode is "#4 'Continued Frog Saves Tokyo'" starring Koichi Sato . Non will be providing the voice role of "Frog".
"After the Earthquake" is a drama series based on four stories from Murakami's collection of short stories "All God's Children Dance" (published in 2000). The setting is not only changed from 1995 to 2025, depicting the 30 years of "after the earthquake" that continue from the "present".
The drama's script was written by Oe Takayoshi, who also wrote the film "Drive My Car," which was based on another Murakami novel, and the drama was directed by Inoue Go Inoue , who has worked on NHK's Asadora drama series "Amachan" in the first half of 2013.
In "Part 4: The Frog Saves Tokyo," the story takes place in Tokyo in 2025. Frog (Non) suddenly appears before Katagiri (Sato), a security guard at an underground parking lot who lives in a manga cafe.
"Kaeru-kun", a giant frog-like man, says that he and Katagiri saved Tokyo from an earthquake 30 years ago, but Katagiri has no recollection of this. Nevertheless, "Kaeru-kun" invites Katagiri to join him in a battle against "Mimizu-kun", the one who causes earthquakes. Will the two be able to save Tokyo once again? Ryo Nishikido will play the mysterious man.
