Drama: Partner in Darkness
Romaji: Yami no Bansosha
Japanese: 闇の伴走者
Director: Takahiro Miki
Writer: Takashi Nagasaki (novel), Dai Sato, Kumiko Aso
Network: WOWOW
Episodes: 5
Release Date: April 11 - May 9, 2015
Runtime: Saturdays 22:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
A year after manga master Fumiya Ajima's death, 50 unpublished sketches are discovered. The sketches appear to be the work of Fumiya Ajima, but the sketches shows details from several missing women cases that occurred 35 years earlier. Fumiya Ajima’s wife (Kyoko Maya) asks the Department Head of Yukihide Ozawa (Jun Kaname) to find out if the sketches are the work of her late husband. Ex-police officer Yuki Mizuno (Nao Matsushita) receives a request to investigate the origins of the 50 sketches. Yuki Mizuno then enlists the help of Shinji Daigo (Arata Furuta), an expert of the manga world.
Notes
Based on the novel "Yami no Bansosha" by Takashi Nagasaki (published April, 2012 by Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd.).
Cast
Nao Matsushita as Yuki Mizuno
Arata Furuta as Shinji Daigo
Bengal as Fumiya Ajima
Kyoko Maya as Yoshiko Ajima
Jun Kaname as Yukihide Ozawa
Tomoya Maeno as Kosuke Takeuchi
Tetsushi Tanaka as Kaoru Kazumine
Kenjiro Ishimaru as Hidemasa Mochizuki
Mitsuru Hirata as cartoonist
Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Kazunari Tomura
Leo Morimoto as Tomoyuki Yajima
Yumiko Fujita as Kazue Mizuno
Toru Nomaguchi as Mikio Terada
Morooka Moro as Kensuke Eto
Yoichi Nukumizu as master
Mina Fujii as Shoko Murotani