Your dead best friend's death wasn't an accident, and the coffee tastes like guilt.
46 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestKazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in their university days, but Yoshiki Hirosawa died on a snowboarding trip 10 years ago. One day, he meets Mihoko Ochi at a coffee shop. He is strongly attracted to her. Kazuhisa Fukase goes to a professor’s retirement celebration at a university. There, he meets Kosuke Asai who went snowboarding with Yoshiki Hirosawa on that fateful trip. Journalist Toshio Ogasawara also appears there. He has been investigating Yoshiki Hirosawa's death.
Acting
Tatsuya Fujiwara's haunted eyes carry entire episodes.
Direction
Snow as character — beautiful, suffocating, burying secrets.
Writing
Novel adaptation that trusts silence over exposition.
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Kazuhisa Fukase
Erika Toda
Mihoko Ochi
Yuta Tamamori
Kosuke Asai
Teppei Koike
Yoshiki Hirosawa
Takahiro Miura
Takaaki Murai
Hayato Ichihara
Yasuo Tanihara
Mugi Kadowaki
Asuka Tanihara
YOU
Kyoko Inui
Kotaro Shiga
Tadashi Hirosawa
Nagisa Katahira
Masako Hirosawa
Tetsuya Takeda
Toshio Ogasawara
Yukiko Shinohara
Numabuchi Kotoha
Shuri
Murai Kaori
Kunio Murai
Murai Akimasa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Kanae Minato's novel — she's Japan's queen of 'why did ordinary people do terrible things' mysteries (also wrote 'Confessions').
The coffee motif isn't just mood — it mirrors how Fukase filters bitter truths through ritual, diluting poison drip by drip until the cup overflows.
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