Name: モンタージュ
Title (romaji): Montage
Also knows as: Drama Special 2016 ~ Montage Sanoku-en Jiken Kitan
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 2
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2016-Jun-25 to 2016-Jun-26
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:00
Synopsis
On 10 December 1968, the greatest unsolved crime of the 20th century, the 300 million yen heist, took place in Fuchu, Tokyo. Despite the unprecedented scale of the investigation – 170,000 investigators were mobilised, the criminal was never caught and the statute of limitation passed. In 2009 in Nagasaki, Narumi Yamato, a third-year high school student, is on the route from school with his childhood friend Odagiri Miku. They discover a pool of blood on the ground and blood stains on the wall too. When they follow the trail of blood, they find that a dying old man Shoji Akira has collapsed at a dead-end street. Yamato is abruptly told by Shoji, “Your father is the 300 million yen heist criminal. Don’t trust anyone.” He tries to ask what Shoji really means. But those are Shoji’s last words to him before passing away. Yamato’s missing father, Narumi Tetsuya, is discovered to have drowned far away in Tokyo three days later … … Yamato, who was brought up by his father after his mother died early, has lost both parents at a young age. Miku’s father Takeo, an admirer of Tetsuya since young, cannot leave Yamato alone. And so, Yamato ends up living together with the Odagiris. Time passes. Yamato, now 25, has graduated from high school but does not continue his education or find employment. He just spends his days idly as a part-time worker. Without a purpose in life, Yamato is aimless. He fantasises about the words that Shoji told him seven years ago as if to bury his discontent and starts to look into the details of the 300 million yen heist. Around that time, Yamato gives away his father’s kendo gear, which had been a memento, to Takeo. He only gets the embroidered name tag with the word ‘Narumi’ and has an uncomfortable feeling about this. When he cuts open the seam, there is a folded, old 500 yen bank note inside and it has spattered blood. Yamato hastily checks documents related to the 300 million yen heist. Of the bank notes that were stolen in the heist, only the serial numbers of 2,000 500 yen bank notes are known and covered in the documents. When he checks the serial number on the 500 yen note in his hand, it corresponds to a number in the document. Why has a bank note stolen in the 300 million yen heist been hidden in his father’s kendo gear? Meanwhile, Takeo also discovers the note from Tetsuya’s glove. Several days later, Takeo and Miku’s mother Yoko go missing. Suspecting that their disappearance is related to the 300 million yen heist, Yamato finds the note that Takeo discovered from Tetsuya’s glove. He realises that the couple is headed for Gunkanjima, the “coal island” they had once boasted of having unprecedented prosperity which was now a remote island with no inhabitants. Yamato and Miku reach Gunkanjima in pursuit of her parents. They find a bag stuffed with old 10,000 yen bank notes believed to have been stolen in the 300 million yen heist from the location written in the note. However, Takeo and Yoko are not there. When Yamato and Miku return from Gunkanjima with the 300 million yen, they meet two groups of men. One man is a Nagasaki detective, Sekiguchi Jiro, who questioned them in 2009 about the circumstances of Shoji’s death. The other man is Yamada, a gangster. Just as Yamato and Miku are feeling uncomfortable with the alarming atmosphere, a car appears in front of them with Suzuki Taisei behind the wheel. A preparatory school teacher, Taisei is also a pupil at the kendo hall that Miku’s father runs and an old friend of Yamato and Miku. With Taisei’s help, Yamato and Miku manage to escape from Sekiguchi and Yamada. After failing to catch the two of them, Sekiguchi kills the owner of the rental boat shop nearby although he is a detective. He then pins the crime on Yamato and Miku and the two of them end up on the wanted list. Sekiguchi was also the one who murdered Shoji in 2009. Pursued by the police as suspects in a murder that they did not commit, Yamato and Miku flee from Nagasaki to Fukuoka and then Tokyo, with the 300 million yen discovered at Gunkanjima. They unwittingly get engulfed by the big case in the complex web of people’s ulterior motives. Will Yamato and Miku be able to get to the truth of his father’s mysterious death and the 300 million yen heist. ~JDramas Weblog~
Cast
Fukushi Sota as Narumi Yamato
Yoshine Kyoko as Odagiri Miku
Gekidan Hitori as Suzuki Taisei
Nomura Shuhei as Kawasaki Yudai
Kadowaki Mugi as Inoue Kazuko
Endo Kenichi as Sekiguchi Jiro
Kagawa Teruyuki as Shoji Akira
Karasawa Toshiaki as Narumi Tetsuya
Miura Takahiro / Nishida Toshiyuki as Sawada Shinnosuke
Shibuya Kento as Mochizuki Ryu
Horan Chiaki / Natsuki Mari as Kyoko Gibson
David Ito as Odagiri Takeo
Nishio Mari as Odagiri Yoko