Crossing Mt. Amagi
During 1926, at fifteen years old, Takichi climbed across Mt. Amagi. Along the way, he met various people, including a beautiful prostitute and a drifter. Thirty years later, he finds out what happens to these two after he leaves the mountain from a retired detective. A mystery that was never solved.
Takichi wants to learn but he can’t go to school because the family is poor. His father is a drunkard and his mother often bickers. He couldn’t stand his family. So he decides to run away from home. He plans to cross the mountain to go to the city.
He becomes an editor years later. He is asked to proofread a novel written by a retired detective, which happens to tell a story about the prostitute he met at that time. He and the prostitute bumped into a drifter. Then, she told him to leave her. They went on separate paths.
According to the novel, the drifter was found murdered. The police thought the killer was the prostitute after some investigation. But there weren’t enough evidence to proof her guilty. How did they solve the case?
The story is mostly flashbacks of Takichi and the the detective. The mystery is interesting. It’s not one of those common mysteries. There is a twist about the murderer, but you’ll able to figure it out before it happens.
Wow, this was filmed a year before Arashi debuted. Nino was sixteen, quite young~
