Kuroi Fukuin (TV Asahi Matsumoto Seichou Drama Special) (2014) (RAW)

On April 4, 1959, Detective Rokuro Fujisawa (Takeshi Kitano) takes his dog for a walk. Shortly later, he finds a dead woman. He is able to identify her by searching through her handbag. Her name is Setsuko Ikuta and she worked as a stewardess for an international airline company. She also has a special delivery envelope from the Church Guglielmo.

To monitor Detective Rokuro Fujisawa, who is an ace detective, but sometimes uncontrollable, higher ups assigns Yoshitaka Ichimura (Eita) as Rokuro Fujisawa’s new partner.

Through intense investigation, Detective Rokuro Fujisawa learns that a blue Renault car with a license plate reserved for foreign residents was parked near the place where the dead woman was found. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa also discovers that the Church Guglielmo possesses a blue Renault.

Notes:

The drama SP is based on an unsolved case during the Showa era where an air stewardess flying the international route was killed.
This will be the first Matsumoto Seicho work in which Eita and Takeuchi appear.