NHK's The Devil's Ballad Sets Two-Part Broadcast As Cast Recount Okayama Shoot
NHK's fifth Kindaichi Kosuke drama, The Devil's Ballad, airs in two parts on NHK BS: Part 1 on November 28 and Part 2 on December 5, each from 9:00 to 10:29 p.m. Daiken Okudaira, Natsuki Deguchi, and Mizuki Yoshida, who play the Aoi siblings and singer Yukari Ozora, spoke about the Okayama shoot as new scene photos were released.
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Why it matters
The two-part slot gives Yasuko Kobayashi's adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's closed-village mystery room to stage its ballad-murder structure, and the cast comments put the Okayama locations and Rie Miyazawa's scenes at the center of the promotion.
Key Facts
- The Devil's Ballad airs on NHK BS in two parts: Part 1 on November 28 and Part 2 on December 5, each from 9:00 to 10:29 p.m.
- Hidetaka Yoshioka plays Kindaichi Kosuke, continuing from the NHK versions of The Devil Comes and Plays the Flute, The Village of Eight Graves, and The Inugami Family.
- Daiken Okudaira plays Utao Aoi, Natsuki Deguchi plays Satoko Aoi, and Mizuki Yoshida plays Yukari Ozora.
- The drama adapts Seishi Yokomizo's novel about a series of murders in a closed mountain village in Okayama, staged to resemble an old temari ballad.
- Yasuko Kobayashi writes the screenplay and Teruyuki Yoshida directs.
The Devil's Ballad keeps Hidetaka Yoshioka as Kindaichi Kosuke, a role he has played across the NHK versions of The Devil Comes and Plays the Flute, The Village of Eight Graves, and The Inugami Family. Yasuko Kobayashi writes the screenplay, and Teruyuki Yoshida directs, as he has for every installment of the series.
Okudaira plays Utao, eldest son of inn proprietress Rika Aoi (Rie Miyazawa); Deguchi plays his sister Satoko, who lives hidden in a storehouse and wears a large birthmark in special makeup; Yoshida plays Yukari Ozora, a singer from the village whose homecoming precedes a run of killings.
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- Cinema Today NHK版「悪魔の手毬唄」岡山ロケの裏側 奥平大兼、出口夏希、吉田美月喜が明かす