N no Tame ni Ep.10 Final

The final episode is here.  The truth about the death of Mr. and Mrs. Noguchi is revealed.  Ten years after the incident, all the people involved in the incident have a sense of closure and are now facing the future. 

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N no Tame Ni Ep.9

The fire incident is finally settled.  We now know what really happened and why it happened.

One more episode to go.  We'll see why Operation N II did not go well, and why those at the murder scene lost touch with one another for 10 years.  I'm hoping that Nishizaki, Sugishita, Andou, and Naruse will be freed from the burden (= secret) they have been carrying ever since the murder. 

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N no Tame ni Ep.8

Planning of Operation N II is on its way... who will take part and how it will be done.  

After this episode, there will be only 2 more episodes.  It seems every individual has a precious person "N", and is going to do things to save/protect his/her "N".  We'll yet to see who is whose "N" and how each "N" is going to be protected.

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N no Tame ni Ep.7

"Operation N" was to save Nobara Apartment.  This week "Operation N No. 2" is starting. 

In 2014, those who were at the murder scene in Noguchi's apartment are reunited.  

It's still not clear who killed whom.  According to the official reports, Mr. Noguchi killed his wife because he became angry about her extramarital affair and Nishizaki killed Mr. Noguchi to protect Mrs. Noguchi, his lover.  Is it really true?  Who is or who are the real killer(s)?

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N no Tame ni Ep.6

This week we know more about the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Noguchi, and how and why Nishizaki and Mrs. Noguchi fell in love...what pulled them together.

I have a feeling that Takno's mute wife holds a key to the murder incident.  It is not clear how Naruse Shinji came to be inolved in the incident.  There seems to be a lot of things we still don't know.

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N no Tame ni Ep.5

Operation N is underway.  Our main characters except Naruse Shinji, (= three residents of Nobara Apt.), and the murdered couple start to get closer and their relationships start to get tangled.  We'll yet to see how Naruse Shinji will come into this entanglement.

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N no Tame ni Ep.4

 

This week, it's mostly about what happened in 2002 - 2003.  We get to know why they got to know the celebrity couple who was murdered and what "Operation N" was about.  This is just the beginning of "Operation N" and we wait for more details.

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N no Tame Ni OST

N no Tame ni Theme Song
"Silly" sung by Leo Ieiri

N no Tame ni Ep.3
N no Tame ni Ep.2
N no Tame ni Ep.1

N no Tame ni Ep.3

The story is progressing, and we know more about how the three people who were at the murder scene are related.  

Let's backtrack a little bit.  This is what we know about the murder, and its background.

Ten years ago, in a high-rise condominium in Tokyo, a husband and a wife were killed.  At the scene were one woman (Sugishita Nozomi), and three men (Nishizaki Masato, Naruse Shinji, and Andou Nozomi).  Nishizaki was arrested on the spot and he confessed that he had killed the husband.  According to Nishizaki, the husband killed the wife which made him kill the husband out of fury.  

Nishizaki, Andou Nozomi, and Sugishita Nozomi knew one another as they were neighbors in an apartment building.  

Naruse and Sugishita grew up together on Aokage Jima, a small island in Seto Inland Sea.  

Nishizaki just got out of prison after spending 10 years there.

There's one more individual, Takano Shigeru.  He used to be a policeman on Aokage Jima.  He's retired now and lives in Tokyo.  He's been investigating a case; an arson which burnt down Naruse Shinji's parents' restaurant 15 years ago.  He thinks Naruse Shinji and Sugishita Nozomi are involved in the case.  He has been looking for Naruse and Sugishita.  He wants to know the truth --- what happened in the arson and the murder.

Now, let's go to this week's story:

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N no Tame ni Ep.2

This episode shows how the hardships made Sugishita Nozomi (played by Eikura Nana) and Naruse Shinji (played by Tsubota Masataka) close, and helped each other out.  It also tells about "the incident Nozomi and Shinji encountered" on their island 5 years before the murder of a husband and his wife in an upscale condominium. 

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N no Tame ni Ep.1

In the last season, we had "Petero no Souretsu" and "Kazoku Gari".  In this season, we have "N no Tame ni" (For N).  It's a suspense/mystery drama involving the death of a husband and a wife, and people around them.  It's not clear who really killed them or how those people who were at the crime scene are connected.  A retired policeman (played by Miura Tomokazu), who has known some of those people from 15 years ago, tries to solve the puzzle.

The drama is based on the novel with the same title written by Kanae Minato.  Many of her novels were turned into movies and TV dramas such as "Confession,"  "Kita no Kanaria Tachi," "The Snow White Murder Case," "Shokuzai," "Yakou Kanransha."   

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