Ghost Writer
A young woman, Yuki Kawahara (Mizukawa) is hired as an assistant by a well-known novelist, Risa Tonou (Nakatani). The novelist suffers from writer's block after years of intense pressure from her publisher to produce novels and screenplays. The assistant, herself an aspiring writer, at first offers ideas for plots and then eventually takes over all of the writing duties, sacrificing her own career in the process. An engaging psychological drama with many plot twists follows over ten episodes.
- Runtime
- 54m
- Released
- 2015
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
A young woman, Yuki Kawahara (Mizukawa) is hired as an assistant by a well-known novelist, Risa Tonou (Nakatani). The novelist suffers from writer's block after years of intense pressure from her publisher to produce novels and screenplays. The assistant, herself an aspiring writer, at first offers ideas for plots and then eventually takes over all of the writing duties, sacrificing her own career in the process. An engaging psychological drama with many plot twists follows over ten episodes.
Top credits
- Miki Nakatani — Lisa
- Asami Mizukawa — Yuki
- Shôhei Miura — Oda
- Nanao — Manami tsukada