Rinjin wa Hisoka ni warau
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Details
- Title: 隣人は秘かに笑う
- Title (romaji): Rinjin wa Hisoka ni warau
- Also known as: The neighbours are secretly laughing / The chuckles of neighbours / Illegal Love
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Mystery
- Episodes: 10
- Viewership ratings: 15.1
- Broadcast network: NTV
- Broadcast period: 1999-Oct-13 to 1999-Dec-15
- Air time: Wednesday 22:00
- Theme song: Akenai sora by Hifumi Kaori (ひふみかおり), JUMP&DRIVE by LOOP THE LOOP
Synopsis
This is a love story / psycho thriller starring Motoki Masahiro, Mizuno Maki, Kanda Uno. The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighbourhood (it is suggested that Motoki is this serial killer). Motoki is a police officer with 2 faces: he has an obsession for housewife Maki and is very gentle with her, and on the other side he rapes & tortures one of her friend, Kanda Uno. His ultimate goal seems to make Maki fall in love with him: so he uses her friend Uno to affect her relationship with her husband & he gradually introduces himself into her life. Another person is also obsessed with Maki (she is a sort of public personality as she runs a cooking club with other housewives and appears in magazines), harrassing her all the time on the phone, spying on her, etc...: this person is close to her as he knows things from her past (her son drowned in an accident). Motoki also had an ordeal in his past: his mother was killed in a fire, by her lover.
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Cast
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Hashimoto Izo (橋本以蔵), Kunii Kei (国井桂), Morita Yukie (森田幸江)
- Producer: Nishi Norihiko, Kitajima Kazuhisa (北島和久)
- Director: Otani Taro, Hosono Hidenobu (細野英延), Naganuma Makoto
- Music: Ike Yoshihiro