Tokyo 23-ku Onna
Freelance writer Ririko Harada and folklore expert Hitoshi Shimano explore Tokyo’s 23 wards, uncovering chilling urban legends and ghostly encounters hidden within the city’s most familiar places.
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Ep 1Woman from Shibuya
An omnibus of horror stories behind Tokyo that depicts fear. As freelance writer Riko (Haruka Shimazaki) with former folklore lecturer Shimano (Amane Okayama), feels some ominous feelings. Around the same time, an office lady, Ryoko (Kana Kurashina), looking on the Shibuya underground to find her missing mother, there she meets a mysterious man (Shiro Sano).
Ep 2Woman from Koto
Ruriko (Haruka Shimazaki) heads to Ward to find out what is the meaning of photographs brought by Yuna (Ayumi Uemura), a high school student. One day, Shinko (Yumi Adachi) comes to Yumenoshima to abandon a large baggage with his mistress, owner of a restaurant, Masuko (Asaharu Hasegawa).
Ep 3Woman from Toshima
Ruriko (Haruka Shimazaki) meets Akune (Bunyo Kohinata), a man who is looking for her missing daughter Mio (Nanami Sakuraba). Ruriko moved to Higashiikebukuro Central Park, which was rumored has a huge tomb built after the end of the war to mourn many war criminals.
Ep 4Woman from Minato
Garment designer Nozomi gets into the taxi, where the driver (Naoto Takenaka) keep asks strange question, such as "Do you know why customers add 'o' to Odaiba?". However, the driver keep travels around Minato at night without heading to the destination Roppongi requested, during that time Nozomi's half-life memories come back to life.
Ep 5Woman from Itabashi
In the corner of Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, there was "Eniri Enoki," which has long been celebrated as a sacred tree. Kaoru (Miho Nakayama), who suspected the affair of her husband Satake (Shigemitsu Ogi), tailed her husband leaving Enema Enoki and leaving behind a votive tablet with cryptic characters.
Ep 6Woman from Shinagawa
Kiuchi (Shirasu Xun), who works at the police station in Shinagawa, feels someone watching him. At the same time, he witnesses many times a suspicious woman standing at the scene of the incident. The woman was Ruriko (Haruka Shimazaki). Meanwhile, Kiuchi follows Ruriko as he enters the Suzugamori prison, an execution place in the Edo period, and listens to his story.
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