The eighth episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Caster " starring Hiroshi Abe (Sunday 9pm) will be broadcast on June 1st.
In the previous episode, "Newsgate" aired, where Hana (Mei Mei Nagano) reported that Fukazawa (Shinya Niiro), the president of "Himawari Net," had been arrested for violating the organ transplant law, and that it was believed that the person who had been supporting Fukazawa was (Hana's father), a doctor named Keisuke Kawashima (Takashi Yamanaka). Then, breaking news broke that Fukazawa had attempted suicide by taking poison in his cell.
Afterwards, Shindo (Abe) goes to his ex-wife, Yokoo Kyoko (Aitsuka Akiko) and his daughter, Sumire (Horikoshi Reika). Shindo is coldly told by Kyoko, "I found an interesting article. It says that Shindo Soichi is the most reliable Caster. No one knows that. Shindo Soichi isn't pursuing the truth. He's just stuck in the past. Don't drag us into that past." Sumire also gives Shindo a cold look...
In episode 8, a large forest fire breaks out in Ashine Village, where nuclear power-related facilities are concentrated. Ashine Village is the birthplace of producer Yamai (Takuma Otoo). While Yamai joins the broadcast crew, Yamai's father Kazuo (Manabu Yamamoto), who lives in a facility with dementia, goes missing near the fire scene.
Shindo, who had arrived at the site earlier than the others, happens to meet Ozaki (Tanida Ayumu) again. Through Ozaki, he asks for cooperation in disaster prevention measures from Shinichi (Uchimura Haruka), the son of former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hanyu (Kitaoji Kinya) and a member of the House of Representatives.
Hana is concerned about the fact that Shindo is familiar with the area of Ashine village and that he often acts alone...
The drama is set in a television news program and is a socially conscious entertainment piece that pursues the truth buried in the darkness and punishes evil.
