Everybody gets to be a detective this week. In "Uranaishi Misuzu: The Incident Beyond Fate" (TBS, Monday, 9 p.m.), it's one of those street fortune tellers you see parked outside of office buildings at night. Misuzu (Kumiko Okae), however, isn't your run-of-the-mill palm reader. She's one of the most popular fortune tellers in Ginza. There's always a line of women waiting for her services.
On one particular evening, a department store clerk named Noriko is especially desperate to receive Misuzu's counsel. In the past, Misuzu had advised her about the prospect of marrying her boyfriend, but now Noriko has more important matters to discuss. Misuzu already has a line of customers she has to attend to first, so she agrees to meet Noriko at a coffee shop later in the evening. However, when she goes there, she finds out that Noriko has been murdered.
The detective in "Nursery School Detective" (Nihon TV, Tuesday, 9 p.m.) is, as the title indicates, a nursery school teacher, but Shinichiro (Ka-tsunori Takahashi) used to be a police detective before he opened his own day-care center in the Kabukicho entertainment district of Tokyo. However, he still moonlights as a private detective to earn extra money.
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