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Alternate spelling of the main detective protagonist in the Shinzanmono series.
Primary suspect and ballet dancer central to the Sleeping Forest murder case.
Ballet company staff member providing crucial information in the Sleeping Forest case.
Police official assisting in the Sleeping Forest ballet company murder investigation.
Police detective handling evidence and interviews in the Sleeping Forest case.
Ballet company staff member involved in the Sleeping Forest investigation.
Police official or investigator assisting in the Sleeping Forest case.
Director of Takayanagi Ballet Company who is poisoned to death in Sleeping Forest.
Ballet company staff member in Sleeping Forest with minor plot involvement.
Ballet company staff member in Sleeping Forest with minor plot involvement.
Police detective handling evidence in the Sleeping Forest case.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Akiko Takayanagi admits that she was Aoki's lover and stabbed him in New York three years earlier after he became desperate about her leaving.
Toshiyuki Kazama is identified as a police official or investigator assisting in the Sleeping Forest case.
Kosuke Yagyu is described as a police official assisting in the ballet company murder investigation, while Sano handles the investigation.
During a costume rehearsal, Kajita collapses, and investigators examine evidence that poison was injected through the back of his chair.
Mio Asaoka quietly rejects a marriage arrangement arranged through Detective Tomii.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
The investigation connects Kazama and Akiko with other dancers and artists who traveled to New York, where the older secret originated.
Kaga examines Aoki's painting, notices the ballerina's rare left-turning ability, and reaches Akiko, who admits her past relationship and attack.
Kajita identified Morii Yasuko as Aoki's lover, although the investigation later establishes that Akiko was Aoki's actual lover.
Kajita protected Akiko by falsely identifying Morii Yasuko as Aoki's lover.
After fleeing New York, Akiko asked Kajita for help, and Kajita lied to protect her by identifying Morii Yasuko as Aoki's lover.
Yasunari Kajita calls to report that Haruko Saito has killed someone, after which Haruko is taken to the police station.
Haruko Saito explains her view of lies backstage, and Kaga later encounters the investigation after she is reported to have killed someone.
After Haruko Saito is taken to the police station, Kaga meets Detective Sano, and their uneasy cooperation begins.
Mio Asaoka is identified as a primary suspect in the ballet murder case, while Kaga Kyoichiro joins the investigation and examines the connected clues...
A ballet-company investigation uncovers how old love, fear, and protective lies connect a present poisoning to a concealed New York stabbing.
Directed by Nobuhiro Doi
Sleeping Forest (2014) · 7.1/10 · crime, mystery, tv-movie
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