Mr. Higashino seems to have a new book published, but I have been busy and haven’t gotten to it yet. What I can share today is about one of his movies.
Since the popularity boom of his hit “Desire of the Desire X”, Higashino Keigo has popularized the
suspense reasoning genre. He is best known for his wonderful reversal and deep humanity portrayal.
I am also a big fan, his “White Nights”, “Solutions and Grocery Shop”, and “Detective Galileo”series are all strongly recommended.
Higashino Keigo is a prolific reasoning writer, and many of his works have also been made into films and TV shows. I recommend his movie “kidnapping game” today for all our readers.
Kidnapping Game
Director: Jing Yucong
Screenwriter: Higashino Keigo / Koyanoi Hongyue / Ozaki will also
Starring: Fujiki Naoto / Nakama Yukie / Ishibashi / Izam / Uzaki Ryuto
Advertising executive Shunsuke Sakuma is at the top of his game. Winning numerous advertising
awards, the cool Shunsuke lives a life most men only dream of. He luckily lands a new massive product campaign for Mikado Beer, Japan’s largest conglomerate corporation. Working on the project for almost two years with an estimated three-billion Yen invested, the project would “make” Shunsuke. But in its final stages, the project is suddenly dropped by a single man — Katsutoshi Katsuragi the son of the original founder and Vice President of Mikado Beer.
Declared “incompetent” by peers in the world of advertising and replaced by a nobody on the project, Shunsuke gets drunk and drives to Katsuragi’s mansion to “tell him off.” But instead, he sees a girl climbing out from the house and trails her. The “girl” happens to be Juri Katsuragi, Katsutoshi Katsuragi’s eldest daughter from a mistress. Shunsuke approaches Juri, threatening that he would tell her father if she did not come with him. Initially, Shunsuke planned to bring her back to Katsuragi to win his favor, but after thinking things through, he plots a “payback” scheme by kidnapping Juri. Juri, not wanting to stay with her father, goes along with the kidnapping. Scared of the media frenzy that would result if they found out that he had an extramarital affair, Katsutoshi Katsuragi goes along with the kidnapping. . . or does he? In a world of players where everyone is playing a game, who is the one to pull the strings? . . .
