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Drama

The Flying Tire

7.0(3)

First Aired:March 29, 2009

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:5

Status:Ended

A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer's failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim's family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.

Cast

Tasuku Emoto

Tasuku Emoto

Shunichi Kadota

Masato Hagiwara

Masato Hagiwara

Kazuaki Isaki

Miki Mizuno

Miki Mizuno

Kiwako Enomoto

Yoshihiko Hakamada

Yoshihiko Hakamada

Shigemichi Komaki

Seiichi Tanabe

Seiichi Tanabe

Yuta Sawada

Masahiro Komoto

Masahiro Komoto

Masashi Yunoki

Toru Nakamura

Toru Nakamura

Tokuro Akamatsu

Seasons & Episodes

Episode 1

E1Episode 1

Mar 29, 2009

Akamatsu's delivery company gets investigated after a fatal accident involving a runaway tire. Sawada of Hope Motors learns about a recall cover-up.

Episode 2

E2Episode 2

Apr 5, 2009

Akamatsu contacts Sawada to get the truck's hub back to conduct an independent investigation. Sawada starts to look for evidence of the cover-up.

Episode 3

E3Episode 3

Apr 12, 2009

Akamatsu finds himself in a bind when the victim's husband files a civil lawsuit and an employee resigns. Enomoto continues to work on her scoop.

Episode 4

E4Episode 4

Apr 19, 2009

Sawada has been moved to a different department. Akamatsu and his employees become despondent when Enomoto's article does not appear in the magazine.

Episode 5

E5Episode 5

Apr 26, 2009

Akamatsu has brought in irrefutable evidence of falsified reports. While Sawada is astonished, Kano moves to deal with the problem.

Storyline

A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer's failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim's family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.

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