Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Preview of "LINK" - Autumn 2013

Title: LINK
Official website: here
O.A. Start Date: 6 October 2013
Timeslot: Sundays 10pm
Number of episodes: 5
Broadcast by: WOWOW
Cast: Oomori Nao, Takeda Tetsuya, Kuroki Hitomi, Tanaka Rena, Mimura, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tanaka Naoki, Ayano Go, Seto Koji, Nagayama Kento, Kaneko Nobuaki, Totsugi Shigeyuki, Tamaru Maki, Maeda Oushiro etc.

Story: Terawara Ken (Oomori Nao) who was a police officer and is now working for a private security company, happens to be in Taiwan on a mission when he gets a call to return to Japan immediately. His new job is to protect Matsuoka Takanori (Takeda Tetsuya), the secretary general of Minji Party, who is a popular politician that speaks his mind but that also earns him lots of enemies. While impressed with Matsuoka's abilities in crisis management, Terawara also gets to know the dark side of politics through working for him.

On the other hand, Sakurai Satoko (Kuroki Hitomi) who had been transferred to the Kochi District Public Prosecutors Office after filing an internal report on her colleague, is told to return to Tokyo in order to handle a huge case involving a big-time politician. However, she is slighted by her colleagues due to her reputation as the woman who betrayed her buddy.

Just then, an explosion takes place at Aoba Trust Bank's branch in Tokyo and their cash delivery truck is robbed. Due to this case, it somehow creates a link between Terawara, Matsuoka, Sakurai, Ishikawa Aki (Tanaka Aki) who works at the bank. The link grows further to inlcude Takashima Shoichi (Tamayama Tetsuji), a junior high school teacher in Hokkaido, Kawamoto Rie (Mimura) who works as a nurse in Tokyo, Sawada Tsutomu (Tanaka Naoki) who works in an apparel company in Osaka as well as Shaun (Ayano Go), the CEO of a IT company...

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