Reverse (2015)

Cast

Matsuzaka Tori, Hagiwara Riku, Anne, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Fueki Yuko, Musaka Naomasa, Mitsushima Shinnosuke, Tsurumi Shingo

Genre

detective fiction, drama television series

How it feels

A man's past comes back to haunt him when a friend from college dies under suspicious circumstances. As he investigates, old secrets and buried guilt begin to surface, forcing him to confront the truth about what happened years ago.

mysteriousslow-burnintrospectivemelancholicsuspensefulcontemplativeemotional

What happens

Reverse is a Japanese mystery novel by Kanae Minato, serialized in the magazine, Shosetsu Gendai," from November 2013 to December 2014, and published in book form by Kodansha on May 20, 2015.。Shortlisted for the 37th Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers; Kodansha paperback edition published on March 15, 2017. This is Minato's first full-length novel with a male protagonist, and the first work in which she was given a theme by her editor and wrote the ending. It was dramatized for television by TBS Television (Japan) in 2017. In 2020, "Day to Day," a project set in Japan during the COVID-19, was relay-serialized on "tree", operated by Kodansha, and the palm version "April 30" (subtitled "Reverse Then") was published on May 30. On November 15, a reading by Yuki Kaji was distributed on "smash". This story was included in the book Day to Day, which was released on March 25, 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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