Strawberry Night (Drama)
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User Rating
Current user rating: 93/100 (44 votes)
Profile
- TV Show: Strawberry Night
- Romaji: Sutoroberi Naito
- Japanese: ストロベリーナイト
- Director: Junichi Ishikawa, Yuichi Sato
- Writer: Yukari Tatsui, Makoto Hayashi, Tsutomu Kuroiwa, Shizuka Ouki
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 11
- Release Date: January 10 - March 20, 2012
- Runtime: Tuesdays 21:00-21:54
- TV Ratings: 15.3%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Yasufumi Yoneda caused a train accident 10 years ago, where the train overturned and killed more than 100 people. Now, Yasufumi Yoneda is found dead at the same location where the accident occurred. His body is severed into two symmetrical halves. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of death - was it suicide or murder? Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) and her team from the Metropolitan Police Department leads the investigation.
Reiko discovers that only a short time existed between Yasufumi's exit from a drinking establishment that he frequented and the time of his death. If Yasufumi was murdered, the crime was premeditated. Reiko also learns that Yasufumi talked in the drinking establishment about having to pay out 860 million yen to the victims in the train accident 10 years ago, including to the president of the victim's compensation group Mutsuo Ogawa, who lost his eldest daughter in the accident, and Saneharu (Izumi Fujimoto).
Reiko and her team learns further that at that the time of train accident 10 years ago, station employee Kazutaka Tokuyama (Kenichi Takito) tried to save Saneharu before she was crushed to dead. After the incident, Kazutaka Tokuyama resigned. Reiko then spots a poster at the station where Kazutaka Tokuyama formerly worked. The poster depicts an image of a body symmetrically halved into two. Apparently, the painting was drawn by the former station employee Kazutaka Tokuyama.
Reiko then goes to Mutsuo Ogawa's home with Detective Kazuo Kikuta (Hidetoshi Nishijima). When they arrive, nobody answers the doorbell. When they touch the door, the door swings open. They go inside. Reiko then finds the dead body of Mutsuo Ogawa lying in the bathroom. The body is also halved into two symmetrical pieces. Reiko assumes that Yasufumi Yoneda and Mutsuo Ogawa were killed by the same person after spotting a particular piece of fabric on Mutsuo Ogawa that was also found on Yasufumi Yoneda.
After conducting further interviews with train accident survivors, Reiko is sure that Kazutaka Tokuyama is the person who killed Yasufumi Yoneda and Mutsuo Ogawa.
Notes
- Based on Tetsuya Honda's detective novel "Strawberry Night" (first published by Kobunsha onFebruary 25, 2006).
- Related titles:
- Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (Fuji TV / 2010) *SP
- Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (Fuji TV / 2012) *Series
- Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (2012) *Movie
Cast
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| Yuko Takeuchi | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Keisuke Koide | Takashi Ukaji | Ryuhei Maruyama |
| Reiko Himekawa | Kazuo Kikuta | Noriyuki Hayama | Tamotsu Ishikura | Kohei Yuda |
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| Masahiko Tsugawa | Ikkei Watanabe | Kenichi Endo | Masahiro Takashima | Katsuhisa Namase |
| Sadanosuke Kunioku | Shunsuke Hashizume | Mamoru Kusaka | Haruo Imaizumi | Hiromitsu Ioka |
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| Tetsuya Takeda |
| Kensaku Katsumata |
Additional Cast Members:
- Kenichi Takito - Kazutaka Tokuyama (ep.1)
- Izumi Fujimoto - Saneharu Ogawa (ep.1)
- Motoki Fukami - Akio Tada (ep.1)
- Aya Omasa - Miki Shimosaka (ep.2-3)
- Shigemitsu Ogi - Chiaki Shima (ep.2-3)
- Toshiyuki Kitami - Yuichiro Shimosaka (ep.2-3)
- Meikyo Yamada - Kohei Uwajima (ep.2-3)
- Tsubasa Honda - high school student (ep.3)
- Tetta Sugimoto - Shuji Kurata (ep.4-5)
- Hideo Ishiguro - Hideki Kurata (ep.4-5)
- Masanobu Sakata - Mizumoto (ep.4-5)
- Rena Mashita - Satomi Yukawa (ep.5)
- Ai Kato - Mayumi Takano (ep.6)
- Toshihiro Yashiba - Masato Yabe (ep.6)
- Katsuhiko Sasaki - Toshikazu Nagatsuka (ep.6)
- Tae Kimura - Mitsuyo Harukawa (ep.7-8)
- Kenji Matsuda - Seiji Kishitani (ep.7-8)
- Kazuaki Hankai - Hayashi (ep.7-8)
- Ken Ishiguro - Kenichi Takaoka (ep.9)
- Gaku Hamada - Kosuke Mishima (ep.9)
- Roi Hayashi - 9-year-old Kosuke Mishima (ep.9)
- Misako Renbutsu - Michiko Nakagawa (ep.9)
- Tetsuhiro Ikeda - Makio Tobe (ep.9)
- Taro Omiya - Chuji Mishima (ep.9)
- Yoshihiro Nozoe - Osamu Matsumoto (ep.9)
- Reika Kirishima - Natsuko Kobayashi (ep.10)
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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| 01 | 01/10/2012 | 16.8% |
| 02 | 01/17/2012 | 16.9% |
| 03 | 01/24/2012 | 16.4% |
| 04 | 01/31/2012 | 16.3% |
| 05 | 02/07/2012 | 15.4% |
| 06 | 02/14/2012 | 14.0% |
| 07 | 02/21/2012 | 15.6% |
| 08 | 02/28/2012 | 14.8% |
| 09 | 03/06/2012 | 13.8% |
| 10 | 03/13/2012 | 12.9% |
| 11 | 03/20/2012 | 15.9% |
| Average | 15.3% | |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
farrangel Says:
Mar 23 2012 4:51 pm
Amazing series... I originally watched the SP movie and found myself so interested in the characters and their relationships that I've been waiting and watching for a series. You can imagine how thrilled I was when the series began!. It's been GREAT and I hope to see another season soon (the ending of this season has a number of incomplete storylines that seem to be hinting at another season). I recommend this to anyone who enjoys police dramas. The storylines are VERY engrossing with twists and turns in the murder cases; the characters are diverse, complex and engaging with real growth and development in them as individuals and in their relationships with one another; the music, sets, and film style are all first rate and appealing. Enjoy!