Rakuen (TV Series)

[Machine Translation] Nine years after "Copycat," a new case arises... Miyabe Miyuki's bestseller "Rakuen," starring Yukie Nakama, has finally been made into a film. --One day, Shigeko Maehata (Yukie Nakama), a writer working for a small editorial production company, is visited by Toshiko Hagiya (Naomi Nishida), a housewife. Toshiko is a writer who works for a small editorial production company. Toshiko tells her that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi (Hirotaka Kurosawa) may have a special ability to "see other people's memories," and presents a picture that Hitoshi has drawn. The picture depicts a gray-faced girl lying in a house with a bat-shaped anemometer, which closely resembles the case of Mr. and Mrs. Doizaki. Shigeko half-heartedly undertakes the investigation, but the girl dies in a traffic accident. Meanwhile, the Doizakis' second daughter, Makiko (Kaho), is perplexed when she hears from her father's deputy, Harumi Takahashi (Hitomi Kuroki), a lawyer, that her parents are trying to break off their relationship with Makiko. At the same time, a high school girl is being held captive in a town. What seems to be a series of disparate incidents soon becomes a single "truth". Shigeko's struggle begins now. Contains 6 episodes.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: making-of featurette, interview(s) with cast

「模倣犯」から9年、新たな事件が起こる―― 仲間由紀恵主演、宮部みゆきのベストセラー「楽園」がついに映像化。――当時15歳の娘を殺害し、遺体を自宅の床下に16年間隠していた土井崎夫妻の事件がニュースを騒がせていたある日、小さな編集プロダクションで働くライターの前畑滋子(仲間由紀恵)のもとに、主婦の萩谷敏子(西田尚美)が訪ねてくる。敏子は、12歳の息子・等(黒澤宏貴)に"他人の記憶が見える"特殊能力があるかもしれないと前置きし、等が描いたという1枚の絵を差し出す。そこにはコウモリ形の風向計が特徴的な家の中で横たわる、灰色の顔をした少女が描かれており、土井崎夫妻の事件に酷似していた。滋子は半信半疑で調査を引き受けるが、等は交通事故で亡くなってしまう。一方、土井崎夫妻の次女・誠子(夏帆)は、父の代理という弁護士・高橋治美(黒木瞳)から、両親が誠子と縁を切ろうとしていると聞かされ戸惑う。そのころ、ある街で女子高校生が監禁されていた―。ばらばらに思える事件はやがて1つの"真実"へ。滋子の奮闘が今始まる――。全6話収録。

特典映像: キャストインタビュー&メイキング(合計20分)