Japanese Drama 2018
Unnatural (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)
Unnatural poster
- AKA: Unnatural! Death
- Genre: Medical, Forensic
- Date Released: 2018
- Origin: Japan
- Dorama: 10 Episodes
Cast:
- Ishihara Satomi as Misumi Mikoto
- Iura Arata as Nakado Kei
- Kubota Masataka as Kube Rokuro
- Ichikawa Mikako as Shoji Yuko
- Iio Kazuki as Sakamoto Makoto
- Matsushige Yutaka as Kamikura Yasuo
- Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Suetsugu Kosuke
- Kamio Fuju as Yokoyama Shinya
Fantastic, a new drama by my favourite Japanese actress, Satomi Ishihara.
Satomi Ishihara plays Mikoto Misumi, a forensic pathologist. She works at the UDI (Unnatural Death Investigation) lab together with her team investigating suspicious death.
Misumi Mikoto has a very interesting back story.
She is a bit damaged because she’s the only one who lived through a family suicide. A young girl, all alone in the world; she got adopted by friends of her parents.
Mikoto is so focused on her job that her lovelife suffered. She was on the verge of becoming engaged to a lovely young man but she put her work before him, including during the ‘meet the parents’ dinner. Her would be fiance was so embarrassed that he broke up with her completely.
The other members of the UDI are:
- Nakado Kei is a brilliant but rather taciturn pathologist. No social skill whatsoever. His back story was that he was tasked to do a forensic on a young woman. When he opened the body bag, he found out that it was his girlfriend, He did the pathology but was put under suspicion later on and the result of the autopsy was overlooked because of his relationship to the victim.
- Kube Rokuro is a young and still rather naive and in need of money. A tabloid agency had him working for them. He had been divulging sensitive information for money.
- Shoji Yuko is the most gregarious amongst the lot. She likes dating and drinking.
I find this drama better than its Hollywood’s counterpart. It is more natural because they don’t finish each other’s sentences. (I was always wondering in US’s CSI – what is the point of having a sort of debriefing just after each episode when it is about to finish where each character seems to know each other’s line of thought word for word – very unnatural 🙂 🙂
Episode 9
There was another victim, which has the same marking of a red goldfish on the inside of the mouth of a dead woman.
Nakado wanted to do the autopsy but Mikoto stopped him point blank, saying that she is the lead pathologist and it would be more official if he has a minimal involvement with the case.
Episode 10
This is a very hectic ending. And they got the serial killer well and truly but they did really work for it. It has been a very interesting drama and it is crying for more seasons.
Where is the romance though? 🙂
Update:
I have just realised that the male lead was Kosuke Asahina in Rich Man, Poor Woman drama and film starring Shun Oguri and Satomi Ishihara. Asahina was the co-founder of Next Innovation.
If you are missing Satomi and Arata, please watch Rich Man, Poor Woman, Japanese version. Better than the new KDrama, without a doubt!