Actor Matsuyama Kenichi stars in NHK's "Drama 10: Themis's Uncertain Courtroom" (General TV, Tuesdays at 10 PM). According to the synopsis of episode 6, which aired on February 24th, the daughter of a former death row inmate, played by Saito Asuka, pleads for her father's innocence and seeks a retrial with new evidence. This is the first time the drama has aired in three weeks, and scene cuts have been released.
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"The Uncertain Courtroom of Themis" is based on a unique legal mystery by Sho Naoshima. It is a courtroom drama about a judge with a developmental disorder who struggles with his own unique characteristics while taking on complex cases. The screenplay is written by Hideya Hamada, who has also written the Fuji TV series "Ichikei no Karasu" and the "Absolute Zero" series.
The subtitle of episode 6 is "Request for Retrial." The "Maebashi Family Murder Case" involved the brutal murder of a family of four. After being arrested, Kazuma Akiba was sentenced to death and the death sentence was carried out.
Twenty-five years after the incident, Akiba's daughter, Yoshizawa (Saito Asuka), claims her father's innocence and seeks a retrial with new evidence. Ando (Matsuyama) is conflicted about whether to allow the retrial to begin and whether he should be involved in the proceedings, and bitter memories that he had suppressed are brought back to his mind.
It turns out that this is due to an indelible past with Yuki (Ogi Shigemitsu), the prosecutor who once sought the death penalty against Akiba.
