Trick
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Total Episodes: 10
(TV Asahi, 2000)
Cast
Nakama Yukie as Yamata Naoko
Abe Hiroshi as Professor Ueda
Nogiwa Yoko as Naoko's mother
Namase Katsuhisa as Officer Yabe
Synopsis
Although 23 year old Yamata Naoko (Nakama Yukie) is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. One day as she is searching through the newspaper for a new job, she comes across an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda (Abe Hiroshi). Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...