Distorted Ripples (2019)

Other name: 歪んだ波紋 ゆがんだはもん 虛假的共犯 Yuganda Hamon

Description

Sawamura Masahiko is a reporter with a local newspaper, Shin Kanagawa Nippo. One day, he gets an scoop on a hit-and-run case. Morimoto Atsukoa, the grieving wife of the man who died, is reportedly the culprit. Masahiko is excited by this scoop which is the first he has had in a long while. However, it is false information planted by his colleague Kirino Hiroshi. Masahiko’s university schoolmate Mitazono, who is now the chief editor of an online news website, points this out. Masahiko pursues Kirino who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Oga Masakazu, a former journalist of a national newspaper and a old friend of Masahiko’s father Ippei, visits Masahiko. Oga has started investigating whether the suicide of a former colleague Kakiuchi Tomonari was due to an incorrect story that Kakiuchi published 15 years ago.

Original Network: NHK;

Director: Sasaki Akimitsu [佐々木章光] and Murakami Makito [村上牧人]

Country: Japanese

Status: Completed

Released: 2019

Genre: Drama; Novel; Suspense; Thriller;