As part of the NHK Special Selection, the program "Unsolved Cases Series File 10: Shimoyama Incident," which focuses on the Shimoyama Incident, "the greatest mystery in postwar history" that no one has been able to solve, will be rebroadcast on NHK General TV from 11:45 pm on October 2nd. In this 10th installment of the Unsolved Cases series, the reporting team obtained hundreds of pages of "top-secret documents" to uncover the unknown side of the case.
In July 1949, JNR President Shimoyama Sadanori suddenly disappeared while negotiating with the labor union regarding the dismissal of 100,000 JNR employees. His body was later discovered gruesomely run over by a train, but a huge debate ensued as to whether it was suicide or murder, and the mystery remains unsolved. The program consists of two parts: a drama (Part 1) and a documentary (Part 2).
The drama stars Mirai Moriyama as Fuse Ken, the chief prosecutor at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office who will lead the investigation, and Sato Ryuta as Yada Kimio, a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun. As Fuse tracks down the case, Tamaki Reo plays Lee Chukan, a mysterious man who claims to be a Soviet spy. Behind the mysterious incident lies a conspiracy by a great power. What will be the outcome of this relentless investigation?
Meanwhile, the documentary will use original reporting to uncover the mystery of a case that the prosecution failed to uncover.
The key lies in Lee Jung-hwan, who claimed to be a Soviet spy and confessed to his involvement in the assassination of the chairman. Classified documents reveal the possibility that Lee received secret orders from an American intelligence organization. This is the "final testimony" left by a former intelligence officer of the "Z Agency," which was responsible for secret anti-communist operations. What is the truth that has emerged from the depths of the darkness of the occupation period?
