Shingo Katori and Eiji Akaso Star in WOWOW Drama The Hollow Cross
The project pairs two popular actors for the first time in a rare TV adaptation of a Higashino novel that directly addresses the death penalty, a theme the author has not previously tackled in his fiction.
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Shingo Katori takes his first lead role in a WOWOW drama series and his first starring role in a Keigo Higashino adaptation with The Hollow Cross, a social suspense drama about the death penalty. Eiji Akaso co-stars as a doctor whose father-in-law commits murder, marking his first collaboration with Katori. The four-episode series premieres September 6.
Shingo Katori will play Michimasa Nakahara, a former advertising agency employee who now runs a pet funeral business. Eleven years after a life-altering incident led to his divorce, a detective tells him his ex-wife was killed on the street. The culprit is quickly caught, but the testimony has puzzling gaps. Nakahara retraces his ex-wife's steps after their separation and uncovers a second, older crime.
Eiji Akaso plays Fumiya Nishina, a pediatrician at Keimei University Hospital. After learning his father-in-law killed a random woman for money, Nishina becomes part of the perpetrator's family. He faces public slander and offers to apologize to the victim's bereaved family, including Nakahara. The series is directed by Takahisa Zeze, whose credits include The Thread and Love from the Gulag.
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- Cinema Today 香取慎吾、東野圭吾原作初主演 赤楚衛二と初共演「虚ろな十字架」WOWOWで9月6日放送スタート