• Drama: Strawberry Night
• Romaji: Sutoroberi Naito
• Japanese: ストロベリーナイト
• Director: Junichi Ishikawa, Yuichi Sato
• Writer: Yukari Tatsui, Makoto Hayashi, Tsutomu Kuroiwa, Shizuka Ouki
• Network: Fuji TV
• Episodes: 11
• Release Date: January 10 – March 20, 2012
• Runtime: Tuesdays 21:00-21:54
• TV Ratings: 15.3%
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Yasufumi Yoneda caused a train accident 10 years ago, where the train overturned and killed more than 100 people. Now, Yasufumi Yoneda is found dead at the same location where the accident occurred. His body is severed into two symmetrical halves. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of death – was it suicide or murder? Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) and her team from the Metropolitan Police Department leads the investigation.

Reiko discovers that only a short time existed between Yasufumi’s exit from a drinking establishment that he frequented and the time of his death. If Yasufumi was murdered, the crime was premeditated. Reiko also learns that Yasufumi talked in the drinking establishment about having to pay out 860 million yen to the victims in the train accident 10 years ago, including to the president of the victim’s compensation group Mutsuo Ogawa, who lost his eldest daughter in the accident, and Saneharu (Izumi Fujimoto).

Reiko and her team learns further that at that the time of train accident 10 years ago, station employee Kazutaka Tokuyama (Kenichi Takito) tried to save Saneharu before she was crushed to dead. After the incident, Kazutaka Tokuyama resigned. Reiko then spots a poster at the station where Kazutaka Tokuyama formerly worked. The poster depicts an image of a body symmetrically halved into two. Apparently, the painting was drawn by the former station employee Kazutaka Tokuyama.

Reiko then goes to Mutsuo Ogawa’s home with Detective Kazuo Kikuta (Hidetoshi Nishijima). When they arrive, nobody answers the doorbell. When they touch the door, the door swings open. They go inside. Reiko then finds the dead body of Mutsuo Ogawa lying in the bathroom. The body is also halved into two symmetrical pieces. Reiko assumes that Yasufumi Yoneda and Mutsuo Ogawa were killed by the same person after spotting a particular piece of fabric on Mutsuo Ogawa that was also found on Yasufumi Yoneda.

After conducting further interviews with train accident survivors, Reiko is sure that Kazutaka Tokuyama is the person who killed Yasufumi Yoneda and Mutsuo Ogawa.

Notes

1. Based on Tetsuya Honda’s detective novel “Strawberry Night” (first published by Kobunsha on February 25, 2006).
2. Related titles:
   1. Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (Fuji TV / 2010) *SP
   2. Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (Fuji TV / 2012) *Series
   3. Strawberry Night | Sutoroberi Naito (2012) *Movie

Cast

Yuko Takeuchi	Hidetoshi Nishijima	Keisuke Koide	Takashi Ukaji	Ryuhei Maruyama
Reiko Himekawa	Kazuo Kikuta	Noriyuki Hayama	Tamotsu Ishikura	Kohei Yuda

Masahiko Tsugawa	Ikkei Watanabe	Kenichi Endo	Masahiro Takashima	Katsuhisa Namase
Sadanosuke Kunioku	Shunsuke Hashizume	Mamoru Kusaka	Haruo Imaizumi	Hiromitsu Ioka

Tetsuya Takeda

Kensaku Katsumata

Additional Cast Members:

• Kenichi Takito – Kazutaka Tokuyama (ep.1)
• Izumi Fujimoto – Saneharu Ogawa (ep.1)
• Motoki Fukami – Akio Tada (ep.1)
• Baku Owada – Tadayuki Himekawa (ep.1,9,11)
• Aya Omasa – Miki Shimosaka (ep.2-3)
• Shigemitsu Ogi – Chiaki Shima (ep.2-3)
• Toshiyuki Kitami – Yuichiro Shimosaka (ep.2-3)
• Meikyo Yamada – Kohei Uwajima (ep.2-3)
• Yutaka Kato – (ep.2-3)
• Tsubasa Honda – high school student (ep.3)
• Haruko Satsuki – farmer (ep.4)
• Tetta Sugimoto – Shuji Kurata (ep.4-5)
• Hideo Ishiguro – Hideki Kurata (ep.4-5)
• Masanobu Sakata – Mizumoto (ep.4-5)
• Hiroto Yoshimitsu – Katsuya Shimada (ep.4-5)
• Rena Mashita – Satomi Yukawa (ep.5)
• Ai Kato – Mayumi Takano (ep.6)
• Toshihiro Yashiba – Masato Yabe (ep.6)
• Katsuhiko Sasaki – Toshikazu Nagatsuka (ep.6)
• Tae Kimura – Mitsuyo Harukawa (ep.7-8)
• Kenji Matsuda – Seiji Kishitani (ep.7-8)
• Kazuaki Hankai – Hayashi (ep.7-8)
• Ken Ishiguro – Kenichi Takaoka (ep.9)
• Gaku Hamada – Kosuke Mishima (ep.9)
• Roi Hayashi – 9-year-old Kosuke Mishima (ep.9)
• Misako Renbutsu – Michiko Nakagawa (ep.9)
• Tetsuhiro Ikeda – Makio Tobe (ep.9)
• Taro Omiya – Chuji Mishima (ep.9)
• Yoshihiro Nozoe – Osamu Matsumoto (ep.9)
• Reika Kirishima – Natsuko Kobayashi (ep.10)
• Koron Mizuno – (ep.10)

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