NHK Casts Rie Miyazawa in Fifth Kindaichi Kosuke Drama Akuma no Temari Uta
NHK's fifth Kindaichi Kosuke drama, Akuma no Temari Uta, stars Hidetaka Yoshioka as the detective, with Rie Miyazawa as an innkeeper whose husband died in a murder case 23 years ago.
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Why it matters
The casting puts a Yokomizo mystery veteran and a returning lead in front of a closed-village story where a 23-year-old murder and fresh killings meet, and NHK is giving it two nights on BS in early winter.
Key Facts
- Hidetaka Yoshioka plays the detective Kindaichi Kosuke in Akuma no Temari Uta.
- Rie Miyazawa plays Aoise Rika, the innkeeper of the hot spring inn Kame no Yu.
- Rika lost her husband in a murder case that occurred 23 years ago.
- Part 1 airs on NHK BS on November 28 and Part 2 on December 5, each from 9:00 to 10:29 p.m.
- Teruyuki Yoshida directs and Yasuko Kobayashi writes the screenplay.
Part 1 airs November 28 and Part 2 on December 5, each from 9:00 to 10:29 p.m. on NHK BS. The story follows a singer's homecoming to a mountain village and a string of killings.
Akuma no Temari Uta takes its title from the old temari song, and the village of Onikubemura is built around that tune. Kindaichi Kosuke visits Okayama to rest and stays at the hot spring inn Kame no Yu, where Rika runs the place and her son Kanao is well liked. Her daughter Satoko stays hidden in a storehouse. The singer Ozora Yukari comes home, the village celebrates, and then young women are killed.
Yasuko Kobayashi writes the screenplay, and Teruyuki Yoshida directs. Rie Miyazawa plays Rika, whose husband died in a murder case 23 years ago, and Toshihiro Wada plays an Okayama police inspector who doubts that old case.
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