A Fading Summer(2015)

A Fading Summer follows a major newspaper's recruitment of a promising female university student—until a rival magazine exposes her as the daughter of a criminal involved in a notorious kidnapping case from two decades earlier. Twenty years ago, a newborn was abducted from a hospital; the kidnapper demanded ransom from the hospital director rather than the parents, then died in a police chase before the child was ever recovered. The newspaper assigns Kaji Hidekazu, a once-celebrated journalist now sidelined after a past scandal, to reinvestigate the cold case. As he digs deeper, Kaji uncovers a shocking and tragic truth that had been deliberately concealed, forcing the newspaper and the young woman to confront a dark secret that connects them all.