Il segreto del vecchio signor Nakamura

The most important, inexplicable robbery in Japan’s history – 300 million yen vanish in broad daylight – becomes an obsession for Inspector Nakamura. A fifty-year investigation reveals a disconcerting truth: this perfect crime conceals the dark soul of a country torn between modernity and tradition, honour and corruption.

Tokyo, 2018. The elderly Inspector Nakamura is expecting a television crew who want to interview him, forcing him to relive the worst failure of his career: the enquiry into the Great Robbery of 1968.

Tokyo, 1968. The young, brilliant and determined Nakamura is certain that solving this case will be child’s play. An armoured van robbery, 300 million yen go missing, an improvised, lucky amateur heist. Only what looks like a simple case turns into a momentous investigation, a mystery that will cast a fifty-year-old shadow over Tokyo and its police force.
As the enquiries proceed, Nakamura uncovers a crime that is seemingly without victims, but full of dark implications: fragmented lives, deadly obsessions and unspeakable secrets that bring to light the murkiest side of Tokyo, a fascinating, ever-changing city capable of glowing with splendour, but equally of concealing a dark, throbbing heart.