If you want to guarantee sponsors for your drama series, hire actress Aya Ueto. At the moment she's appearing in a record-breaking 19 TV commercials, which is probably why she manages to star in more than one series a year.
In her latest, "Zettai Rei-do: Mikaiketsu Jiken Tokumei Sosa" (Absolute Zero: Unsolved Cases Special Investigation; Fuji TV, Tues., 9 p.m.), she makes her first appearance ever as a police detective.
In episode one, Izumi (Ueto) and her partner Fukasawa (Tomomi Maruyama) are brought in when the decayed body of a woman is found buried at a construction site. Clues lead the special team to connect the body to a famous ¥3 million robbery case that occurred 10 years earlier and remains unsolved. The team starts re-questioning persons who were related to the old crime, but the more questions they ask, the more questions they have.
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