Thursday, October 17, 2013

Nishijima Hidetoshi, Kagawa Teruyuki & Maki Youko to star in TBS & WOWOW relay drama "MOZU"

Nishijima Hidetoshi, Kagawa Teruyuki and Maki Youko will be the leads in the first relay drama series produced by TBS and WOWOW titled "MOZU" based on the popular police detective novel series "Mozu" by Osaka Gou. TBS will show 10 episodes during spring 2014 while WOWOW will show the remaining 5 during summer 2014. However, the actual broadcast timeslots and O.A. dates have not been confirmed yet. This is the second time that TBS and WOWOW are working together after they last produced the remake of HK movie "Infernal Affairs" in the form of the drama SP "Double Face" also starring Nishijima and Kagawa which was shown in October 2012. Filming of the drama began from mid September.

Nishijima plays the role of Kuraki, an ace detective in the public security department of the Metropolitan Police Department, Kagawa plays a self-made detective Osugi while Maki plays the role of Miki, a young public security police officer. The three of them work together to find the truth behind a series of cases committed by a mysterious professional killer Mozu. The first part of the drama titled "MOZU Season 1 ~ Mozu no sakebu yoru" features the case of Kuraki's wife killed by an explosion engineered by Mozu while the second part "MOZU Season 2 ~ Maboroshi no Tsubasa" talks about a mass murder at a hospital.

Source: Yomiuri Hochi / Cinema Today

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