Takenouchi Yutaka & Matsuyama Kenichi team up in TV Asahi drama SP "Olympic no Minoshirokin"

Takenouchi Yutaka and Matsuyama Kenichi will be working together for the first time in the TV Asahi 55th anniversary 2-part drama SP "Olympic no Minoshirokin" (The Olympic's ransom) to be shown this autumn which is set during the period just before the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. The drama SP is based on Naoki Award writer Okuda Hideo's novel and describes how Ochiai (Takenouchi), a police detective in the 1st section of Metropolitan Police Department, strives to ensure that the Tokyo Olympics go on smoothly while hunting down Shimazaki (Matsuyama), an University of Tokyo student who wants to sabotage the Olympics because he thinks that the event is what causes the widening social and financial gap suffered by the general working public.

Filming will be done at various locations mainly within Japan as well as Busan, South Korea, which has some places resembling how Japan looked like back in 1964.

Source: Sanspo 1 / Sanspo 2