Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors

Overview

The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person who didn't have any troubles. Kawagishi worked for a company in Kofu City in Yamanashi, leaving behind his wife and daughter on Awaji Island in Hyogo. He seems to have started working as a laborer 3 years ago, having fallen on hard times when the company went bankrupt. Saeko Kawamura, Ushio's reporter friend, calls him wanting to talk about the case. According to Saeko, Kawagishi was one of the survivors of the "bus hijack arson case" that happened three years ago. In the bus hijack arson case, a man who was hallucinating under the influence of dangerous drugs set fire to an intercity bus going to Shinjuku and departing from Kofu Station...

Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Top cast

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Masanao Ushio

Maki Mizuno

Saeko Kawamura

Natsumi Nanase

Naoko Kitazawa

Kanji Tsuda

Yoshikatsu Tarumi

Mao Miyaji

Yukiko Kawagishi

Hiro Komura

Kyoko Kawagishi

Yukijiro Hotaru

Kazuyoshi Kawagishi

Satoshi Jinbo

Katsuya Yamazaki

Kenjiro Nashimoto

Detective Nagae

Yoshiaki Umegaki

Koichiro Iwase

Takeyuki Yue

Kazuo Mita

Sokyu Fujita

Kozo Ota

Eiichiro Funakoshi

Kouhei Ogata

Naoho Ichihashi

Tomomi Kasuga

H

Hiroto Yoshimitsu

Yutaka Maezono

Toshihide Tonesaku

Detective Ogami

Yuu Tokui

Detective Yamaji

Kazumi Ishihara

Detective Nishitani

J

Joe Onodera

Taisaku Akino

Chief Sakamoto

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