Hokuto

Details

 * Title: 北斗
 * Title (romaji): Hokuto
 * Tagline: ある殺人者の回心 / Aru Satusjinsha no Kaishin
 * Format: Renzoku
 * Episodes: 5
 * Broadcast network: WOWOW
 * Broadcast period: 2017-Mar-25 to 2017-Apr-22
 * Air time: Saturday 22:00

Synopsis
20-year-old Hokuto is being detained as a murderer and tells his court-appointed lawyer Takai Soichi to get him the death penalty. Hokuto was actually severely abused by his parents in his childhood and starved of love. He met Kondo Ayako who became his foster mother through child welfare services and learnt of love for the first time. Released from the darkness of his mind, he started to feel like a new person but he is made sport by bizarre fate and becomes a murderer. -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast

 * Nakayama Yuma as Hashitsume Hokuto
 * Onishi Riku as young Hokuto
 * Matsuo Suzuki as Takai Soichi
 * Murakami Jun as Hashitsume Shiko
 * Nakamura Yuko (中村優子) as Hashitsume Misako
 * Ito Sairi as Maritani Asumi
 * Nikaido Satoshi as Tomioka Kazuma
 * Negishi Toshie as Yoshinaga Kyoko
 * Riju Go as Motohashi Nobuhiro
 * Yajima Kenichi as Ikuta Tomochika
 * Urabe Fusako (占部房子) as Morinaga Sanae
 * Owada Kensuke as Ioka Masaaki
 * Yamada Anna as Sekimoto Haruka
 * Fujita Yumiko as Osugi Satoko
 * Shimada Kyusaku as Ioka Masashi
 * Miyamoto Nobuko as Kondo Ayako
 * Kayano (加弥乃‏)

Production Credits

 * Original writing: Hokuto Aru Satusjinsha no Kaishin by Ishida Ira (石田衣良)
 * Screenwriter: Takimoto Tomoyuki (瀧本智行)
 * Producer: Okano Makiko (岡野真紀子)
 * Director: Takimoto Tomoyuki (瀧本智行)