Tokyo 23-ku Onna (2019)

Name: Tokyo 23-ku Onna
Rating: 5.0

Rating: 5.0

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2019-04-12

Last Air Date: 2019-05-17

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Created By: Toshikazu Nagae

Networks: WOWOW Prime

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Top Cast

Haruka Shimazaki as Ririko Harada
Kana Kurashina as Ryoko
Masanobu Sakata as Ryoko's Father
Shiro Sano as Hyuga
Miku Iwasaki as Young Ryoko
Sarara Tsukifune as N/A
Yumi Adachi as Nobuko
Makiko Kuno as Kanae
Tomoharu Hasegawa as Shiro
Sawa Suzuki as Shizuko

Seasons

None (2019)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Woman from Shibuya (2019-04-12)

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. 2: Woman from Koto (2019-04-19)

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. 3: Woman from Toshima (2019-04-26)

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. 4: Woman from Minato (2019-05-03)

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. 5: Woman from Itabashi (2019-05-10)

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. 6: Woman from Shinagawa (2019-05-17)

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.