Exhausted from searching the city for his missing wife, Kyōhei stumbles into a small bar and falls into a dangerous affair with a mysterious woman named Miwa. A snake tattoo coils around her thigh — a mark of a past she can’t outrun. Then, one day, Miwa reveals she knows where Kyōhei’s wife is… but the truth may be more than he bargained for.
宮下順子
Miwa
Kiyoshi Abe
Keiko Sakai
中川梨絵
Woman
高橋明
Minoru Koike
石津康彦
Risa Aoki
Exhausted from searching the city for his missing wife, Kyōhei stumbles into a small bar and falls into a dangerous affair with a mysterious woman named Miwa. A snake tattoo coils around her thigh — a mark of a past she can’t outrun. Then, one day, Miwa reveals she knows where Kyōhei’s wife is… but the truth may be more than he bargained for.
ในกรุงโตเกียว ประเทศญี่ปุ่น เกิดคดีฆาตกรรมอันน่าสยดสยองหลายคดีในช่วงวันฝนตก นักสืบซาวามูระผู้รับผิดชอบคดีนี้ค้นพบในไม่ช้าว่าครอบครัวของเขาเองก็มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องกับคดีนี้ด้วย
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