Shugyoku no Suspense Kessaku Sen (TV Drama)

[Machine Translation] This DVD is titled "Pearl of Suspense Masterpieces" and contains four masterpiece suspense dramas broadcast on TV Asahi's "Saturday Wide Gekijo" in 1985. The four dramas are based on masterpiece mystery novels by famous authors such as Seiichi Morimura's "Ma Shonen", Shizuko Natsuki's "The End of the Road Home", Yukio and Keiko Fuji's "Shishiza", and Seicho Matsumoto's "The House on the High Ground", and are all portrayed by a splendid cast. This is the long-awaited first soft version! [Makiko Sagara has a family situation. Her husband, Masaki, has a business patron and mistress, Miyako Takita. One day, the cab in which Masaki rode caused a traffic accident, and she decided to hire Takeru Ohno, a driver who was seriously injured in the accident and lost his job, as a guard. Makiko's son, Masao, is ten years old and in the fourth grade of elementary school. His grades are the second highest in his class, and he is an honest boy who is kind to others. Ono's son Soichi, on the other hand, has transferred to a new school and is now in the same class as Masao, but he is an unruly bad boy, and a series of disturbing incidents occur around him. Akio Nishina, a section chief of Matoya Machinery who lives in company housing, and his wife, Seiko, take the plunge and buy a house for sale as their two children are getting older. The price was just barely within Nishina's income, but they trimmed the family budget and started their long-awaited new life. One morning, however, the garage of their neighbor, Toma, collapsed during construction, and part of the retaining wall of Nishina's house collapsed as well. Moreover, Tonami shows no sign of repairing the damage, claiming that it was caused by a mistake in the construction company's landscaping. The relationship between Nishina and Tonami's neighbors deteriorated. Then, someone murders Toma. / Disc2 / "The Lioness" (aired April 1985) -- On an off-duty afternoon, Detective Kikuchi of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division receives a letter from an unknown sender. It stated that he had witnessed a murder case at the Aioi Bridge in Ome. As the letter stated, there were traces of the murder on the Aioi Bridge, and a body was found shot to death downstream. The body was identified as Kintaro Kezuka, manager of the Ome branch of "Sala-kin Loans YOKOTA. Kikuchi is dispatched to the local police station's investigation headquarters to visit one of the loan customers, Misao Matsuda. Misao is a sophisticated looking woman who also rents a vacation home, but for some reason, she is borrowing money from Kezuka. Tatsuo Yamane, an assistant professor at a university in Tokyo, visits the Fukara family to borrow materials for his dissertation, where he meets a beautiful young widow, Sachiko. Sachiko's husband had died in a traffic accident two years earlier. The Fukara family lives in an upscale residential area on high ground, and the head of the family, Einosuke, is a diabetic and a recluse, but he is also a wealthy man who serves on several corporate boards. His wife, Muneko, a former member of the nobility, still retains her elegant good looks. At the house, young men would gather around Sachiko from time to time to form a salon. As Yamane frequents the salon, he begins to get an unusual impression of the Fukara family.... / "The End of the Road" opening digest / "The Lioness" opening digest and preview / "The House on the High Plateau" opening digest. Includes a commentary (tentative).

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「珠玉のサスペンス傑作選」と題して、1985年にテレビ朝日系列「土曜ワイド劇場」枠にて放送された傑作サスペンスドラマ4作品を収録した、注目のDVDが登場! 収録作品は、森村誠一「魔少年」、夏樹静子「家路の果て」、藤雪夫・藤桂子「獅子座」、松本清張「高台の家」といった著名な作家の傑作ミステリー小説を原作に、豪華キャスト陣が集結して描き出す極上ドラマ4選。待望の初ソフト化![収録作品] 《Disc1》 ■「魔少年」 (1985年6月放送) ――相良牧子には、家庭の事情があった。夫の正紀には、事業のパトロンであり、愛人でもある滝田美也子がいたのだ。ある日、正紀が乗ったタクシーが交通事故を起こし、その事故で大怪我をして職を失った運転手の大野猛を守衛に雇うことにした。牧子の息子・正男は十歳、小学校四年生。成績はクラスで二番、他人にやさしい素直な少年だ。一方、大野の息子・宗一は、転校して正男と同じクラスになったが、手に負えない悪童で、彼の周囲で不穏な事件が次々と起こり・・・。 ■「家路の果て」 (1985年3月放送) ――社宅住まいの的矢機械の係長・仁科秋雄と妻・征子は、二人の子どもも大きくなってきたため、思い切って建売住宅を購入。価格は仁科の収入ではギリギリだったが、家計を切り詰め、待望の新生活がスタートした。ところが、ある朝、隣人の戸波の車庫が工事途中でくずれ、仁科家の擁壁も一部崩壊した。しかも戸波は、建設会社の造成ミスが原因と言い張り修理する気配も示さない。仁科と戸波の隣人関係は悪化した。そんな中、戸波が何者かに殺害される。/《Disc2》 ■「獅子座の女」 (1985年4月放送) ――警視庁捜査一課の菊地刑事は非番の午後、差出人不明の投書を受け取った。青梅の相生橋で殺人事件を目撃したという内容だった。相生橋には、投書通り殺人の痕跡があり、川下で射殺死体も発見された。遺体は"サラ金ローンズヨコタ"の青梅支店長・毛塚金太郎と判明した。地元署の捜査本部に派遣された菊地は、貸付顧客の一人、松田美佐緒を訪問。美佐緒は洗練された容姿で、別荘をも借りる身でありながら、何故か毛塚から借金していた。 ■「高台の家」 (1985年4月放送) ――東京のある大学の助教授・山根辰雄は論文に必要な資料を借りに深良家を訪ね、そこで若く美しい未亡人・幸子と出逢う。幸子の夫は二年前、交通事故で死亡していた。深良家は高台の高級住宅地に居を構え、当主・英之輔は糖尿病で引き籠もっているが、いくつかの会社役員を兼ねた資産家だった。その妻・宗子は元華族の出で、今なお上品な美貌を保っていた。そしてその家では、折々、幸子のまわりに青年たちが集まりサロンを形成していた。山根は何度か出入りしているうちに、深良家の人々にただならぬ印象を受けるようになり・・・。映像特典には、◆「魔少年」オープニングダイジェスト、番宣 ◆「家路の果て」オープニングダイジェスト ◆「獅子座の女」オープニングダイジェスト、番宣 ◆「高台の家」オープニングダイジェストを収録。解説書封入 (予定)。