The main visual for the drama series W-30: My Murdered Husband Has Returned (WOWOW, starting July 11th), starring actor Mizuki Yamashita, has been released. The design features the symbolic silhouette of a woman-like figure behind the "murderous wife" Suzukura Mana (Yamashita) and the "murdered husband" Suzukura Kazuki (Riku Hagiwara). The figure behind her is said to be an important character related to the mystery of the film, in which the supposedly dead husband reappears before the heroine.
The drama is a suspense and mystery based on the novel of the same name by Sakurai Mina (Shogakukan, 2021). The protagonist Mana takes the first step towards her dream of becoming a designer while hiding the secret of killing her abusive husband, but the husband she thought she had killed appears with no memory of it. There are 6 episodes in total. It will be broadcast and streamed on WOWOW Prime and WOWOW On Demand from 11:00 pm on July 11th (the first episode will be broadcast and streamed for free).
The main cast members, Ririka Tanabe, Shiori Doi, Yuki Sakurai, Futo Nozomi, Hideyuki Kasahara, Kenshiro Kawanishi, Daikichi Sugawara, and Nene Otsuka, were also announced. Nozomi, a former top star of the Snow Troupe of the Takarazuka Revue, will be appearing in a drama series for the first time.
Tanabe plays Mana's best friend, Doi plays Tanimura Miho, a colleague at the apparel company where Mana works, Sakurai plays a mysterious man who contacts Kazuki, Nozomi plays Mana's boss Takagi Yumiko, Kasahara plays Hodaka Kazuomi who follows Mana, Kawanishi plays Iwamoto Takatsugu, a detective in the violent crimes division, Sugawara plays Nishigaki Hideo, a detective in the violent crimes division and Iwamoto's boss, and Otsuka plays Matsuki Sachiko, who knew Mana when she was a child. A trailer featuring the main cast has also been released.
