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Chiaki Kuriyama, Kei Tanaka Star in Manga-Based Shikeidai no 72-Jikan
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
2 TV specials adapt one-shot manga about 5 people who must it to murder or die
Japanese television channel BS channel on November 26. The second and final episode will debut on December 3.
The suspense story revolves around five young women and men who are caught up in a search to find the truth behind a man's apparent suicide. When the group is locked in a secluded house, they are told that one of them murdered the man. If the culprit does not confess within 72 hours, all five trapped people will die.
The cast for the drama is as follows:
- The Sky Crawlers) as pharmaceutical company employee Kiriko Natsuki
- Tokyo University Story) as IT company president Takaaki Himuro
- Daichi Mao as Kaoru, the dead man's mother
- Satoshi Nikaidō
- Yuka Matsubara
- Marie Machida as Mayumi Takayanagi
The one-shot was originally published in the Tōbō Kyūkō (Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame (A Sparrow That Falls into the Sea) volume with other one-shot manga by Shinohara.
Source: Comic Natalie