主演 広瀬すず『クジャクのダンス､誰が見た？』長編予告 解禁!! 1/24スタート! 【TBS
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Google translates the first two dozen characters of the YouTube title as 'Thank you!!" I am not sure I believe that, but whatever. There are four episodes, a cute girl, a convoluted plot and some real characters. Entertaining and intriguing.
Update two days later: The series is incomplete. There are only four episodes available on Netflix and no sign of more episodes coming. So far they are just collecting clues and more questions and no explanation of what happened, so that's kind of a drag.
There are some good shots of a truly fabulous peacock displaying his fan, several shots of everyday things taken from unusual angles, like watching tea being poured into a cup viewed from the bottom of the cup.
The title is basically a different version of 'if a tree falls in a forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?'
Today:
Turns out there are ten episodes. We finished it up this weekend. We watch a lot of these murder mysteries and there is usually some kind of explanation for why the killer is killing people. Sometimes it's just because he's a deranged psychopath and enjoys killing people. But the reasons given in this show make me think that Japan suffers from a serious cultural defect, and it really irritated me. I mean, what kind of fucked up reason is that? Why did the two killers kill four people and send two others to jail?
The girl's natural mother killed the girl's adoptive father to conceal the secret of her birth. The story that the father wants to tell his daughter is that she was only surviving member of a family that was murdered 20 years ago. The mother kills him to prevent him from telling her that story, but it's not true. The girls natural mother was having an affair with the father of the murdered family. The man had just gotten a divorce from his wife and was bringing his girl friend and her baby to his family home. When he gets there he discovers that his wife has lost her mind killed their children. When he shows up she attacks him. He responds and kills her. This is awful, but not for any reason you might think. If the fact that his wife killed their children comes out then the family with be shamed. So he hangs all the dead bodies from ropes tied to the balcony and then commits suicide the same way so that, presumably, he will get blamed for their deaths and the fact that his wife went crazy will remain a secret. Shades of fucking Okinawa.
The police arrest a known burglar and for this mass murder. A quirky, little old man was the prosecutor looking to make a name for himself, and he got his conviction.
The quirky little old man shows up again in our present day investigation and offers to help. He seems to honest and forthright, so they take him in. Bad move. When our girl starts digging into her father's death, he kills the elderly couple who facilitated the baby's adoption. He doesn't want anybody digging into this case and finding out that the man they convicted was not the killer.
I referred to everyone by a description of their role because the names are inscrutable. The names are printed in English in the subtitles, but the pronunciation we hear bears little to no resemblance to the way I would pronounce those names. Also, the characters are often referred to using other names which I can only surmise are nicknames or some kind of shorthand. I collected what character names I could and attempted to figure out who played what role, and I was partially successful. Here is what I found and this is where I found it. At the top we have the actors whose character roles were listed, and to the right are their roles. Note that there were several roles where I could not determine who the actor was.
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