The Smiling Man (2020)
Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university and founding a job at a major city bank, marries Shoko and have a daughter, Amina. Nito, while leading a life that looks like the picture of happiness and being the envy of everyone, is charged with the murder of his wife and young child. At his trial, he reveals a shocking motive for the crime: “I wanted space for books.”
- Released
- 2020-03-01
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama, Mystery
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Masayuki Ochiai, Takehiko Hata
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Tori Matsuzaka as Toshimi Nito
- Machiko Ono as Akira Kamoi
- Katsuhisa Namase as Hajime Inoue
- Yoji Tanaka as Koichi Takizawa
- Tenkyû Fukuda as Kunio Sato
- Ryohei Abe as Keijiro Kajiwara
- Sho Yakumaru as Yasushi hosaka
- Nori Sato as Kasumi
- Toshihito Kokubo as Takuro Kamoi
- Fuga Shibazaki as Toshimi Nito (child)
- Sora Tamaki as Kasumi (child)
More like this
- Wedding Planner Mystery (2014)
- A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
- The Wings of the Kirin (2012)
- Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con (2021)
- Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)
- Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015)
- A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)
- Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
- Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2021)
- Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)
- Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016)
- Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)