The Woman Who Took the Local Paper(1973)

movie - first aired/released 1973-02-12

TV Movie, Horror

Directed by Tokihisa Morikawa

Based on the original mystery novel by Seicho Matsumoto. Novelist Ryuji Sugimoto is publishing his serial in a local newspaper when a woman from Tokyo subscribes, saying she’s interested in his work—only to abruptly cancel weeks later. Suspicious, he realizes her true interest may not be the fiction at all, but a real double suicide reported in the same paper.