- Drama: Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance
- Romaji: Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance
- Japanese: 罪と罰: A Falsified Romance
- Director: Manabu Aso
- Writer: Naoyuki Ochiai (manga), Yumiko Kamiyama, Tadasuke Fujimoto
- Network: WOWOW
- Episodes: 6
- Release Date: April 29-June 3, 2012
- Runtime: Sundays 22:00
- Genre: Suspense / Crime / Based on a Comic
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Miroku Tachi (Kengo Kora) is a college drop out who has become a hikikomori and hopes to become a writer. Miroku Tachi then plans the murder of a young prostitute named Baba Hikaru (Ai Hashimoto).
Notes
- Based on the manga “Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance” by Naoyuki Ochiai (published by Futabasha), which contains themes based on the classic novel “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- Title “Tsumi to Batsu” means literally “Crime and Punishment”.
Cast
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| Kengo Kora | Asami Mizukawa | Ayumi Ito | Keisuke Horibe | Ai Hashimoto |
| Miroku Tachi | Echika Ameya | Yoshino Tachi | Kikuo Ameya | Hikaru Baba |
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| Akiyoshi Nakao | Shota Sometani | Aki Asakura | Asuka Ono | Hisako Manda |
| Masamichi Yazumi | Haruka Mikoshiba | Akemi Nakagami | Risa Shimazu | Yoshimi Tachi |
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| Tetsushi Tanaka | Masato Ibu |
| Kai Sudo | Kuroudo Goi |
Additional Cast Members:
- Tomoharu Hasegawa – Mekada
- David Ito – Yakuza
- Ryushin Tei – Kou
- Takeshi Onishi – Detective Isawa
- Asahi Uchida – man who knew Ameya’s weakness, when Ameya was a teacher
- Jun Matsumoto – ep.1,4,6
- Kouji Tsujimoto – ep.1
- Oolong ta Yoshida – ep.1
- Marieme Massaly – ep.1
- Tomohisa Yuge – ep.3-4
- Yoshihiro Nozoe – ep.3
- Asami Katsura – ep.3
- Hitomi Harukaze – ep.3
- Yoko Imamoto – ep.3-5
- Ayane Omori – ep.3,4,6
- Kenji Uchikura – ep.4,6
- Daisuke Yamazaki – ep.5
- Taro Iwate – ep.6
- Haruka Kurosawa – ep.6
- Tomomitsu Adachi – ep.6
