The issue of organ transplants gets pulled into service for the two-hour suspense drama, "Egao: Jugonenme no Uso" (The Smiling Face: Fifteenth Year Lie; TBS, Mon., 9 p.m.).
Hideo Inaba (Ken Ishiguro) drives a municipal street car for a living and spends his off-hours at a local hospital where he dresses as a clown and entertains sick children. It's his way of giving something back for the survival of his daughter, who needed a heart transplant 15 years earlier and received one thanks to the help of many people.
One of the patients in the hospital he works at is a girl named Tomomi (Yui Ichikawa), who is the same age as Inaba's daughter. Tomomi needs a liver transplant and can only receive one from a blood relative. However, her older brother is on death row for murdering their father 15 years ago. One day, a detective visits her in the hospital and tells her he thinks her brother is innocent.
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