Heavenly Blue (1994)

Overview

Winner of the 10th Art Works Award. The film depicts the "ultimate love" in which a man who is a murderer and a woman who doesn't believe in love meet by chance and eventually fall in love with each other. "A drama adaptation of Ayako Sono's original work of the same name, which is based on the "Okubo Kiyoshi Incident," which actually happened. The script was written by Yumiko Inoue. Koichi Sato plays the role of a ruthless murderer who murders women one after another, and Kaori Momoi plays the role of a woman who falls in love with such a murderer. It was broadcast on terrestrial TV in the "Saturday Drama" slot.