Official Website
www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/sonata
Broadcast
Saturdays, 10.00 – 11.00 p.m. from 24 January 2015
Station
WOWOW
Story
Mikoshiba Reiji is an invincible lawyer who is described as one who would certainly win a suspended sentence no matter what charges a person is indicted for. As a result, his fees are exorbitant and he has gained notoriety. The clientele that comes to him are also unscrupulous. He is not only given the cold shoulder by those around him for being a crass lawyer, but also subjected to harassment on a daily basis. Mikoshiba volunteers to be the court-appointed defence lawyer in a contentious and sensational murder case. The cards are overwhelmingly stacked against the defendant, Tojo Mitsuko, who switched off the artificial respirator for her hospitalised husband to get insurance money. Mitsuko pleads not guilty. Obtaining the assistance of Mitsuko’s wheelchair-bound son, Mikiya, Mikoshiba reinvestigates the case. In the midst of this, a drowned body is discovered in a riverbed within Saitama Prefecture and Detective Watase of the Saitama Prefectural Police embarks on the investigation. Then he discovers that the victim, Kagaya Ryuji, a freelance journalist, had been snooping around Mikoshiba just before death. As the investigation progresses, Watase gets to Mikoshiba’s past. He is the real culprit in the murder of a little girl. Why did a murderer become a lawyer? What is his objective?
Characters
Mikami Hiroshi/Tanifuji Riki as Mikoshiba Reiji/Sonobe Shinichiro
A famous lawyer who wins suspended sentences in all sorts of trials. However, he has a bad reputation because he will stop at nothing and his fees are exorbitant. He made a mistake in his youth which he cannot atone for. He killed a 5-year-old girl with a samurai sword. Placed in a juvenile medical treatment facility, he took the name Mikoshiba Reiji, the name of a special effects hero
Lily Franky as Watase
A detective of Saitama Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division. Rank: Inspector. He has extensive field experience and exceptional perceptiveness. He is in charge of the case of the freelance writer, Kagaya Ryuji, who drowned. He becomes suspicious of Mikoshiba Reiji because of the victim’s personal belongings left at the scene.
Sometani Shota as Tojo Mikiya
Tojo Mitsuko’s son. When he was a junior high school student, the car that his mother was driving was involved in a traffic accident. He was left half-paralysed and forced to be wheelchair-bound. He believes in his mother’s innocence.
Toyota Maho as Tojo Mitsuko
The defendant in a murder case. She was arrested as a suspect in the murder of her husband, Shoichi, the company president of a sawmill, for insurance money because she stopped his artificial respirator. He was badly injured by falling lumber in an accident at the sawmill during work. She continues to insist upon her innocence even though she received a verdict of life imprisonment at the appeals court and the first trial.
Nakahara Takeo as Inami Takeo
A former instructor at Kita Kanto Juvenile Medical Treatment Facility where Mikoshiba Reiji was placed. He is one of the few people who understood Mikoshiba in his boyhood and knows about his past.
Horibe Keisuke as Nukada Junji
The prosecutor in charge of Tojo Mitsuko’s case. He is hostile towards Mikoshiba Reiji.
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