The Hovering Blade (Samayō Yaiba) 2009
- JDramaMama
- Apr 2, 2015
- 2 min read
A middle school girl is dragged into a car into the darkness of the night. The next day, the young girl's body is discovered along the Arakawa river. Detectives Oribe (Takenouchi Yutaka) and Mano (Ito Shiro) arrive on the scene and discover that the girl was drugged and sexually assaulted before being brutally murdered. The girl's name is Ema and she is the only daughter of Nagamine Shigeki (Terao Akira). He is called in to the station and after identifying the body of his only daughter, Nagamine loses the will to live.
One day, Nagamine receives a phone call from an unidentified person. The caller leaves the names of two young men, Tomotaki (Kuroda Kohei ) and Sukano (Okada Ryosuke), who killed his daughter and also leaves the address of Tomotaki. Frustrated with the lack of police progress, Nagamine goes to Tomotaki's home and finds a video tape containing two men drugging his daughter and then brutally assaulting her in the empty apartment. Nagamine is now enraged and just then, Tomotaki enters his apartment. Shigeki stabs Tomotaki to death with a knife, but before he is killed, Nagamine finds out the whereabouts of his accomplice Sukano.
Det. Oribe and Det. Mano receive a letter from Nagamine confessing to the murder of Tomotaki. He writes that because the young men were minors they would have likely gotten light sentences. No matter what, Ngamine cannot forgive the men for what they did to his daughter. The detectives must now track down Nagamine who is a wanted fugitive, while Nagamine hunts down Sukano.
Director: Mashiko Shoichi
Stars: Terao Akira, Takenouchi Yutaka, Ito Shiro, Kuroda Kohei, Sakai Miki
JDramaMama's Rating: B
The ultimate "Daddy Revenge" film! This is a well acted story and Terao Akira who plays the grief stricken father hell bent on revenge, is great. You can actually feel his pain and frustration, especially poignant is the scene when he views the video tape of his daughter being brutally assaulted. Once again, an inept police department is two steps behind the murderers but Daddy Dearest is on it! The despair and heartbreak of the father is palatable as he agonizes on what kind of beasts could have done this to his child. You see him age and become haggard at the lack of progress by the police. You reconize that he has no choice but to seek justice himself for his beloved daughter. Good movie, but sad.
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