Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.

Country:

Japan

Genre:
Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

2017

Director:

Tōru Murakawa

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Company:

TV Asahi,

Toei Company

Cast:
Hideki Takahashi

Inspector Totsugawa

Rina Uchiyama

Yumiko Onodera

Sayuri Kokusho

Misako Kuroki

Takashi Ukaji

Detective Matsuyama

Momiji Yamamura

Detective Hojo

Crew:
Tōru Murakawa

Director

Kyôtarô Nishimura

Original Story

Kuniho Yasui

Screenplay

Tetsuo Nakamae

Sound Recordist

Hideo Hara

Director of Photography