To put it simply, a murder happens. The people connected to it are childhood friends who reunite after twenty-three years, and the story follows what unfolds around that murder and how their relationships shift. In episode one, most of the background already feels revealed. When they were children, four friends went out together in the forest area and heard gunshots. That same day, a police officer and a fleeing bank robber shot each other and died. The gun from that incident was hidden, and twenty-three years later it is used again. By the end of the first episode, this chain of events is largely laid out. It feels like reading a Japanese mystery novel. Not especially thrilling, not the kind that makes you desperate to know what happens next. More like, “I see,” and you keep going. It is not overwhelmingly exciting, but maybe this steady, restrained tone is typical of many Japanese dramas. There are five episodes, about forty-eight minutes each. The original Japanese novel is titled Reunion, and that literary feeling comes through clearly. Rather than watching with high expectations, it may be easier to watch it thinking, “So this is the texture of a Japanese drama.”