The Orient Express derails into Japanese prestige TV — and everyone's guilty of something.
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
Acting
Nomura's Hercule Poirot is theatrical, tender, unhinged.
Production
The train is a cramped, gorgeous character itself.
Direction
Kono lets silences scream louder than accusations.
Director
Keita Kono
Mansai Nomura
Takeru Suguro
Nanako Matsushima
Maiko Baba
Kazunari Ninomiya
Heita Makuuchi
Hiroshi Tamaki
Hakushaku Ando
Ikki Sawamura
Iwao Noto
Sosuke Ikematsu
Saisuke Hazama
Sayaka Aoki
Sumiko Hirudegawa
Akiko Yagi
Sonoko Kureta
Takahiro Fujimoto
Tamio Hotoda
Sumiko Fuji
Fuji Hatori
Katsumi Takahashi
Baku
Takashi Sasano
Suda
Takashi Kobayashi
Etsuo Masuda
Mitsuko Kusabue
Koshaku Todoroki
Toshiyuki Nishida
Buichi Miki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mansai Nomura is a legendary kyogen performer — his physicality as Suguro/Poirot borrows directly from centuries of masked theater tradition.
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