Tokuro Nukui

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.”

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.

エリートサラリーマン家庭であった田向一家惨殺事件から1年経ち、事件は犯人が見つからないまま迷宮入りしていた。その時、ある記者が、田向夫妻の同僚や学生時代の同級生、元恋人などに、夫妻との思い出や人柄についてインタビューして回る。すると、一見理想的な夫婦と思われた二人の本性が現れてくる。