Drama: Penance's Sonata
Romaji: Shokuzai no Sonata
Japanese: 贖罪の奏鳴曲
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Writer: Shichiri Nakayama (novel), Takuya Nishioka
Network: WOWOW
Episodes: 4
Release Date: January 24 - February 14, 2015
Runtime: Saturdays 22:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Mikoshiba Reiji (Mikami Hiroshi) is an invincible lawyer who is described as one who would certainly fight to win a suspended sentence no matter what the charges are. As a result, his fees are also exorbitant. Because the clientele that comes to him are also unscrupulous, he is even shunned by those around him for being a crass lawyer. Mikoshiba volunteers to be the court-appointed defence lawyer in the trial of a murder for insurance money. The cards are overwhelmingly stacked against the defendant, Tojo Mitsuko (Toyota Maho). In the midst of this, a drowned body is discovered in a riverbed within Saitama Prefecture and Detective Watase (Lily Franky) of the prefectural police embarks on the investigation. Then he discovers that the victim, a freelance journalist, had been snooping around Mikoshiba just before death. As the investigation progresses, Watase gets to Mikoshiba’s past. He is the real culprit in the murder of a little girl. Why did a murderer become a lawyer? What is his objective?
Notes
Based on the novel "Shokuzai no Sonata" by Shichiri Nakayama (published December 21, 2011 by Kodansha Ltd.).
Cast
Hiroshi Mikami as Reiji Mikoshiba
Shota Sometani asMikiya Tojo
Lily Franky as Watase
Maho Toyota as Mitsuko Tojo
Takeo Nakahara as Takeo Inami
Shunya Shiraishi as Kazuya Kotegawa
Keisuke Horibe as Junji Nukada
Riki Tanifuji as Shinichiro Sonobe