A cold case hotter than your ex's DMs — and the clock's ticking.
The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new information turned in to the police. Obsessed about cracking cases right up till the statute of limitation, Mizoguchi has a bitter thought about a 300 million yen case that has reached the statute of limitation... When he goes to investigate the male high school student(s) whom the woman had taught and other persons related to the deceased, he sees an unexpected connection with another case...
Acting
Kamikawa's Mizorogi simmers with deadline desperation
Writing
Tight construction of two cases bleeding into each other
Director
Toshiyuki Mizutani
Takaya Kamikawa
溝呂木義人
Yoshinori Okada
Yoshio Kita
Megumi Sato
秋間幸子
Hirofumi Arai
Jojiro Tatsumi
Shuji Kashiwabara
Soichi Tachibana
Kanji Tsuda
Bokuzo Masana
Yasuhi Nakamura
Yuji Tanigawa
Tatsuo Yamada
Jisaku Kurata
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
大友 稔
Shion Machida
Maiko Mine
Shirō Shimomoto
Mokichi Kaneko
Touta Tawaragi
Osamu Mitsudera
Kazuyuki Aijima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of TV Asahi's long-running 'Lupin' mystery franchise where each installment features a different detective with a ticking-clock obsession.
The title's 'Lupin' references not the gentleman thief but the Japanese legal term's shadow — the film interrogates who truly escapes when justice expires.
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