Details

• Title: トリック
• Title (English): Trick
• Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
• Broadcast network: TV Asahi

Synopsis (for the 3 drama seasons, not the movies)

1: Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko (Nakama Yukie) is a “super” magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda (Abe Hiroshi). Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an “X-Files” meets “Scooby-Doo”…

2: Trick 2 keeps on describing the strange relationships of Yamada Naoko, a skilled and unemployed magician, and Ueda Jiro a physics teacher who doesn’t believe in supranatural powers. Each story gives us the opportunity to meet these funny characters including Police Officer Yabe and Naoko’s mother.

3: A unique duo of a beautiful female magician and a strange physics professor are back! After two successful TV series, a record high DVD sales record in the newly released drama category, a smash hit theatrical movie, the best selling novelized book, etc., the show has made a come back to a weekly prime time slot.

The drama takes place at a remote mountain village bound by convention. In each episode, a beautiful female magician and a strange physics professor witness various supernatural phenomena far beyond their imagination. Just as the previous series, the two will try to investigate and seek what lies behind these paranormal events and logically prove what the tactful trick would be, only, if any. Now reaching its third series, the drama assures an ever more emphasis on the performance of the unique casting, stronger and original scripts, and more fun delving into the mysteries of this favorite title! – TV Asahi

Cast

• Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
• Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
• Namase Katsuhisa as Yabe Kenzo
• Maehara Kazuki as Ishihara Tatsuya

Download

CD1: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / English Subtitle
CD2: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / English Subtitle