Masaaki Sakai

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Prosecutor Sakata of the Yonesaki District Public Prosecutors Office and his colleague Shoji are pulled into assisting the Tokyo Office’s Special Investigation Department to investigate influential Diet lawmaker Okouchi and Masumoto of a technical skills foundation. The two men are believed to be involved in a bribery case. But a key witness in this scandal commits suicide, and the next person believed to hold the key to the case, the foundation’s accountant, has disappeared.

Hirotoshi Honda, a teacher of a prestigious private girl’s high school, is arrested on suspicion of violating the nuisance prevention ordinance for molestation on a train and sent to prosecutor Sakata. High school student Reina claims he touched her buttocks in the packed train but Honda denies the crime and calls it a fabrication and claims he was blackmailed by Reina on the train platform. Reina denies his allegation. Even for a misdemeanor, Sakata believes not pursuing the truth is like death as a prosecutor.

『宮城野』（みやぎの）は、2008年製作・2010年公開の日本映画である。 矢代静一作による同題戯曲を映画化した作品である。謎多き浮世絵師である東洲斎写楽をモチーフにした新感覚の時代劇。矢代の娘の毬谷友子が主演している。 “もう一つのエンディング版”である『宮城野〈ディレクターズカット版〉』も製作され、この作品はお蔵出し映画祭2011のコンペ部門にノミネートされて、審査員特別賞を受賞した。