

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
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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