The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

Cast

Yūji Hori

Detective Nagata

Tokue Hanazawa

Detective Hayashi

Hiroshi Minami

Detective Azuma

Rinichi Yamamoto

Detective Kaneko

Takashi Kanda

Chief Detective

Chiyoko Honma

Daughter Kumiko

Torahiko Hamada

Genzaburo Sakai

Kenji Imai

Detective Mitamura

Ken Sudo

Detective Watanabe

Kaoru Kusuda

Rie Kawai

Tadayoshi Ueda

Kinoshita

Kappei Matsumoto

First Investigation Section Chief