Prison Hotel

Written by Jiro Asada (Naoki-sho prize winner novelist) brief description: a story of a woman novelist (Akiko Matsumoto) having male name Takanosuke.  The novelist won great fame for her gangstar stories, but most people believe she is a male.  Takanosuke visits a small "prison hotel" whose owner is a "yakuza" gangstar leader (Tetsuya Kakeda) to try to find her lost mother.

STARRING: Akiko Matsumoto, Tetsuya Takeda, Yoshihiko Inohara (V6), Soichiro Kitamura, Kinzo Sakura, Sabu Kawahara, Yoko Ohshima
THEME SONG: "Stellar" by Matsumoto Akiko and "Elegy" by Kaientai
NETWORK: TV ASAHI
DURATION: Starts on April 17, 1999 through June 1999.
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