6.045 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestRio must make a difficult decision as the truth comes to the surface, tying together the events of 15 years prior with the recent murders.
Rio Sanada is the president of "Sanada Wellness" and an up-and-coming businesswoman who is selected as one of the "100 people in their 30s who will change the world". She is reunited with her former love interest Daiki Miyazaki, who is now a detective, after 15 years as an important witness to a murder case. In Gifu Prefecture in 2006, Rio is a third-year high-school student who wants to go to the University of Tokyo. She took good care of her younger brother in lieu of their busy father. Before Daiki could confess to her, an incident occurs at the dormitory.
Acting
Yoshitaka plays two Rios with devastating subtlety.
Direction
Tsukahara's dormitory scenes breathe with suffocating intimacy.
Creator
Ayuko Tsukahara
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Rio Sanada
Kouhei Matsushita
Daiki Miyazaki
Arata Iura
Kenichiro Kase
Mitsuhiro Oikawa
Shinsuke Goto
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Azusa Sanada
Minami Tanaka
Shiori Tachibana
Yui Sakuma
Hitomi Kuwata
Fumiya Takahashi
Yu Asamiya
Eita Okuno
Masanobu Sanada
Kanako Miyashita
Ayaka Kojima
Ken Mitsuishi
Tatsuo Asamiya
Kenjiro Tsuda
Atsushi Yamao
Amane Okayama
Hayato Fujii
Ayame Misaki
Nana Aoki
Yoshi Sakō
Akira Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gifu Prefecture's isolated dormitory culture mirrors Japanese 'exam hell' pressure cookers where students literally sacrifice everything for Tokyo University admission.
The 15-year gap mirrors Japan's lost generation timeline—2006's hopeful students became 2021's disillusioned adults, making Rio's 'world changer' status deeply ironic.
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