Kajitsu no nai Mori

Details

 * Title: 花実のない森
 * Title (romaji): Kajitsu no nai Mori
 * Also known as: The Forest of No Escape
 * Format: Tanpatsu
 * Genre: Mystery, suspense drama
 * Viewership ratings: 7.0%
 * Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
 * Broadcast date: 2017-Mar-29
 * Air time: Wednesday 21:00

Synopsis
Umeki Ryusuke is a creative planner who works for an IT company. Although he is capable, he is given the cold shoulder in the company because of his competence at work. One rainy night, a middle-aged man Hamada Hiroshi appears in front of the car that Umeki is driving and tells Umeki to give him a ride to the hotel where he is staying. Umeki is bewildered by this sudden request but the dull-looking man is accompanied by an beautiful woman Eto Miyuki with an enchanting smile. Umeki gives the hitchhiking couple a lift to the hotel. When he casually glances at the backseat of the car, he notices that she had dropped an old pendant which she had been wearing. An poem from the Manyoshu, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, is engraved on it. Umeki gradually starts to become preoccupied with the mysterious Miyuki. However, while getting to know Miyuki, he learns that the men who got close to her have been dying of suspicious causes one after the other. Is she a murderer? Umeki begins to probe her true identity without heed for his personal safety. What is the truth that he will arrive at? -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast

 * Higashiyama Noriyuki as Umeki Ryusuke
 * Nakayama Miho as Eto Miyuki
 * Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Kusuo Hidemichi
 * Aibu Saki as Fujimura Mayumi
 * Owada Baku as Hamada Hiroshi
 * Watanabe Ikkei as Watabe Shinji
 * Washio Machiko as Yamabe Kikuko
 * Nakahara Takeo as Goda Ryosuke
 * Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Inoue Kotaro
 * Terajima Susumu as Shimazaki Yoshiki

Production Credits

 * Original work: Novel Kajitsu no nai Mori by Matsumoto Seicho (松本清張)
 * Screenwriter: Shinozaki Eriko
 * Chief Producer: Nakagawa Junpei
 * Producer: Matsumoto Taku (松本拓), Takaishi Akihiko (高石明彦)
 * Director: Nakamae Yuji (中前勇児)