Go-nin no Junko

Satake Junko is arrested as a suspect in a series of suspicious deaths. The murders of five men she allegedly killed are all over television talk shows every day. As the media coverage heats up, a journalist Tanabe Junko, who works for the popular non-fiction writer Kubota Mei, and Kubota’s new assistant Ukai Yuko begin to gather information on the cases in a search for the truth. Tanabe obtains information from Satake’s junior high school classmate that Shinoda Junko had been a good friend and goes to visit Shinoda’s company. Meanwhile, Fukudome Junko, a former workplace colleague and full-time housewife who had seen Tanabe on a television programme, comes to visit her. Tanabe wonders if she will provide information that will help them. But all that comes out from Fukudome’s mouth is idle talk about her worries regarding the hierarchy of company housing. Tanabe pulls herself together and continues gathering information on the cases. At one point, a person believed to be one of the victims linked to the Satake cases emerges. He is the son of the late Morikawa Junko. These Junkos – women of different circumstances who have nothing to do with the cases – find themselves at the mercy of the first name they share “Junko”. Before long, they start to get embroiled in a torrent of malice.