Drama

FLASHBACK

Japanese Title FLASHBACK
No. of Ep 4
Duration 60
Production Year 2015
Genre DETECTIVE/HORROR/ROMANCE/Science Fiction
Type Series
Cast Ryo NARITA
Rin TAKANASHI
Toru NAKAMURA
Masahiko TSUGAWA
Copyright © 2015 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.

Synopsis

What is the Book of Prophecy that predicts the end of the human race and is tied to the recent murders?!
Hitler did a top secret investigation in Tokyo? There’s a mysterious pyramid in Japan? An Incan god is coming to Earth?
In the suspenseful drama FLASHBACK, a police detective has the special ability to get a “flash” of the image of a dead person’s soul when he touches their corpse or something they left behind. He teams up with a researcher at a cutting edge scientific institute whose professor took the credit and the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in AI development. While skillfully solving macabre murder cases, the duo realizes there’s a historical truth hidden behind the crimes and seek to uncover it.
It turns out all of the cases are somehow tied to the mystery of the Book of Prophecy, which predicts the end of the human race…
A series of unprecedented bizarre murders involving a half-melted corpse, a charred corpse, and so on occurs in modern-day Tokyo. Detective Ryoma investigates the crimes. He possesses a special ability nicknamed “flashback”, which allows him to see the residual thoughts of dead people. Ryoma is helped by Himiko, a brilliant scientist who should rightfully have been given the Nobel Prize that was usurped by her supervisor.
The two of them are assigned to HIDE, a secret crime division. Their assignment is to use his “flashback” ability and her cutting edge scientific intellect to solve mysterious serial killings.
However, Ryoma has a secret. If he doesn’t actually touch the physical clue seen in his flashback vision within 72 hours, he’ll die from a brain hemorrhage.
The relationship between Ryoma, a former archaeologist, and Himiko, who’s brilliant but has a communication disorder, is like oil and water at first. But as they solve cases together, they gradually accept one another.
However, at some point they discover shocking truths that seem to contradict history…
Hitler was searching for an underground empire in Japan! A secret pyramid exists in the country! The truth about the Kennedy assassination! And a Book of Prophecy that points to the end of the human race!
In the end, can the two of them prevent the extinction of humanity?