Drama: Angel's Knife (literal title)
Romaji: Tenshi no Naifu
Japanese: 天使のナイフ
Director: Kozo Nagayama
Writer: Gaku Yakumaru (novel), Kenichi Onishi
Network: WOWOW
Episodes: 5
Release Date: February 22 - March 22, 2015
Runtime: Sundays 22:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Takashi Hiyama (Keisuke Koide) works as a cafe manager. He has lived alone with his 4-year-old daughter since the death of his wife Shoko (Izumi Fujimoto). Shoko was killed by three 13-year-old boys 4 years ago. The three boys were protected by the Juvenile Act, but Takashi and Shoko's mother (Mayumi Wakamura) were hounded by the media and their lives exposed.
Now, even though Shoko's friend (Kana Kurashina) and cafe employee (Yudai Chiba) try to dissuade Takashi, he begins to search secretly for the three boys. Someone then makes an attempt on the boys' lives one by one. Detectives suspect Takshi as he made threats in the media 4 years ago that he would seek out revenge if the boys were not prosecuted. Meanwhile, Takashi tries to find the truth about the three boys.
Notes
Based on the novel "Tenshi no Naifu" by Gaku Yakumaru (published August, 2005 by Kodansha Ltd.).
Cast
Keisuke Koide as Takashi Hiyama
Kana Kurashina as Miyuki Hayakawa
Izumi Fujimoto as Yoko Hiyama
Yudai Chiba as Fukui
Keita Machida as Detective Nagaoka
Masato Wada as lawyer
Lasarl Ishii as Nukui
Toru Tezuka as Chief Inspector Saegusa
Mayumi Wakamura as Sumiko Maeda
Hiroya Shimizu as boy A
Takumi Kitamura as boy B
Nijiro Murakami as boy C
Nanase Nishino as student worker
Reika Sakurai as student worker
Sayuri Matsumura as student worker