Series synopsis
Silent is a Japanese crime drama television series that premiered on Fuji TV on October 6, 2022. It ended on December 22, 2022. It was created by Nigel McCrery. It stars Haruna Kawaguchi, Ren Meguro, Ryoko Shinohara and Kaho.
Tsumugi Aoba and Sou Sakura dated in high school. They both liked music. After graduating, Sou sent her a message breaking up. She started dating Minato Togawa, a mutual friend. 8 years later, she sees Sou, only to learn he is deaf.
Premise
Tsumugi Aoba and Sou Sakura dated in high school. They both liked music. After graduating, Sou sent her a message breaking up. She started dating Minato Togawa, a mutual friend. 8 years later, she sees Sou, only to learn he is deaf.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Haruna Kawaguchi as Tsumugi Aoba
- Ren Meguro as Sou Sakura
- Ryoko Shinohara as Ritsuko Sakura
- Kaho as Nana Momono
- Shunsuke Kazama as Masaki Haruo
- Ouji Suzuka as Minato Togawa
- Hiyori Sakurada as Moe Sakura
- Rihito Itagaki as Hikaru Aoba
Supporting cast
- Arata Sato as Riku Tabata
- Kouta Nomura as Nishida Keisuke
- Raiku as Hayakawa [Masaki's colleague]
Guest cast
- Kouta Nomura as Nishida Keisuke
- Raiku as Hayakawa [Masaki's colleague]
Episodes
This series spans 20 seasons with 176 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | October 31, 2022 | October 31, 2022 |
| Season 1 | 11 | October 6, 2022 | December 22, 2022 |
| Season 2 | 8 | February 14, 1997 | April 11, 1997 |
| Season 3 | 8 | March 19, 1998 | April 23, 1998 |
| Season 4 | 6 | May 31, 1999 | June 15, 1999 |
| Season 5 | 6 | December 11, 2000 | March 23, 2001 |
| Season 6 | 8 | October 28, 2002 | November 27, 2002 |
| Season 7 | 8 | October 11, 2003 | November 2, 2003 |
| Season 8 | 8 | September 5, 2004 | September 27, 2004 |
| Season 9 | 8 | July 25, 2005 | August 16, 2005 |
| Season 10 | 10 | July 16, 2006 | August 14, 2006 |
| Season 11 | 10 | August 28, 2007 | September 25, 2007 |
| Season 12 | 12 | October 1, 2008 | November 6, 2008 |
| Season 13 | 10 | January 7, 2010 | February 5, 2010 |
| Season 14 | 10 | January 3, 2011 | February 1, 2011 |
| Season 15 | 12 | April 1, 2012 | August 20, 2012 |
| Season 16 | 10 | January 10, 2013 | February 8, 2013 |
| Season 17 | 10 | January 2, 2014 | January 31, 2014 |
| Season 18 | 10 | January 6, 2015 | February 3, 2015 |
| Season 19 | 10 | January 4, 2016 | February 2, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Special 1 | October 31, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Tsumugi Aoba is looking forward to a new life after having experienced a breakup eight years ago with someone she had hoped to be with for the rest of her life. |
October 6, 2022 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Tsumugi and Sou are reunited after eight years. However, Sou speaks only in sign language and, for this reason, abandons Tsumugi. Minato, meanwhile, is perplexed to learn that the two have reunited, but he arranges a sign language class for Tsumugi. |
October 13, 2022 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Eight years ago, Minato was speechless as he watched Tsumugi and Sou fall in love. But now that he is Tsumugi's lover, his feelings become complicated when he sees Sou reappear. |
October 20, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Blood, Sweat and Tears (1) A boxer dies from brain injuries mid-bout. A new DSI takes over the team's investigations. Sam and Wyn bury their mother. |
February 14, 1997 |
| 2 |
Blood, Sweat and Tears (2) Sam discovers why Kevin entered a bare knuckle fight, as well as uncovering evidence of more foul play in the boxing circuit. |
February 21, 1997 |
| 3 |
Cease Upon the Midnight (1) Stuart Evans is in the advanced stages of Aids when he dies, and his body is donated to science. However a routine toxicology test reveals foul play was at work. |
February 28, 1997 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
An Academic Exercise (1) Sam must investigate a case with a painful personal connection when a close friend is murdered after the Cambridge May Ball. |
March 19, 1998 |
| 2 |
An Academic Exercise (2) The case becomes entangled in Annabelle's romantic relationships when Sam discovers her friend may have had an affair with a student. |
March 19, 1998 |
| 3 |
Fallen Idol (1) A young woman is found dead in an empty house. Why was she there? Sam suspects another person was involved. |
April 2, 1998 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Gone Tomorrow (1) Sam learns that the captain of the helicopter died of a heart attack, but she doesn't think it was the cause of the crash, and with 75 helicopters grounded, accident investigator Tony Newsome needs some answers. |
May 31, 1999 |
| 2 |
Gone Tomorrow (2) Sam learns that the captain of the helicopter died of a heart attack, but she doesn't think it was the cause of the crash, and with 75 helicopters grounded, accident investigator Tony Newsome needs some answers. |
May 31, 1999 |
| 3 |
A Kind of Justice (1) A small-time criminal is the prime suspect in a gangland murder. Sam Ryan believes he may be innocent. |
June 8, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The World Cruise (1) Two elderly brothers are found dead in their home, with no apparent injuries. A post mortem discovers suspicious puncture marks and a possible racist connection. |
December 11, 2000 |
| 2 |
The World Cruise (2) A third death helps Sam realise that the motive behind the murders of the Davies brothers was not racial - but revenge. |
December 18, 2000 |
| 3 |
Two Below Zero (1) Sam is called in to identify the naked body of a woman uncovered on a ski slope in Norway. |
February 12, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Fall Out (1) Professor Leo Dalton and Dr Harry Cunningham join Sam Ryan in the investigation of a massive traffic accident in which not everything is as it seems. |
October 28, 2002 |
| 2 |
The Fall Out (2) Sam, Leo and Harry are at odds with the police investigators when a covert operation is exposed. But has Sam overstepped the mark this time? |
October 29, 2002 |
| 3 |
Kith and Kill (1) The police bring in the team when a family is attacked in their own home, leaving the only survivors in critical condition. |
November 5, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Answering Fire (1) Sam is called after a suspected terrorist attack causes a fire at a hotel and a government minister is injured. |
October 11, 2003 |
| 2 |
Answering Fire (2) Sam delves deeper into the case but is undermined by the findings of an independent pathologist, brought in to conduct a second autopsy. |
October 12, 2003 |
| 3 |
Fatal Error (1) Sam comes under scrutiny at an official inquiry into two prison deaths and an old case Sam worked on 13 years resurfaces. |
October 18, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Time to Heal (1) The bodies of two young men are discovered, partially exposed, following a landslide on the coast of Northern Ireland. |
September 5, 2004 |
| 2 |
Time to Heal (2) The case takes an interesting turn when the bodies are identified as brothers who disappeared after a police questioning during the Troubles. |
September 6, 2004 |
| 3 |
Death by Water (1) Suspicious symptoms afflicting a group of children on the coast may be linked to the death of a local man. |
September 12, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ghosts (1) When his wife and teenage daughter are involved in a hit-and-run car crash, Leo begins a painful journey back to his native Sheffield. |
July 25, 2005 |
| 2 |
Ghosts (2) As the police infiltrate a gang of identity thieves, Leo faces a choice between justice and revenge. |
July 26, 2005 |
| 3 |
Choices (1) The team is called to a drive-by shooting outside a London nightclub. They arrive to a scene of carnage with several people dead, or dying. |
August 1, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cargo (1) When a boat carrying illegal passengers is found crashed in the Thames, the team investigate. |
July 16, 2006 |
| 2 |
Cargo (2) The team follows the trail of the people traffickers, and has to find any remaining survivors before a highly contagious disease breaks. |
July 17, 2006 |
| 3 |
Terminus (1) The team investigates a hit-and-run accident, an arson and a woman who collapsed on her hen night. |
July 23, 2006 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Apocalypse (1) Harry and Nikki are first on the scene when an RAF helicopter crashes, but Harry's search for answers brings him into conflict with the Ministry of Defence. |
August 28, 2007 |
| 2 |
Apocalypse (2) Harry suspects the Ministry of Defence may be covering up the true cause of the helicopter crash, but he's determined to get to the truth. |
August 29, 2007 |
| 3 |
Suffer the Children (1) When the mutilated body of a young boy is pulled from the river, Leo is determined to give him an identity and to bring his killers to justice. |
September 3, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Safe (1) Leo does community service on a rough estate after being done for drink-driving. |
October 1, 2008 |
| 2 |
Safe (2) Frustration within the team builds as Harry and Nikki struggle to find any useful evidence from the post-mortems to help the police. No one will talk, and they have no leads. Leo worries for Levi, who is sucked further into a world of gangs and violence. |
October 2, 2008 |
| 3 |
Death's Door (1) The team investigates the murder of a woman found dumped on the side of the road with her face removed. |
October 8, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Intent (1) Leo comes under suspicion for fraud when an insurance investigator accuses him of falsifying a post-mortem report, and Harry falls for the charms of an attractive former colleague. |
January 7, 2010 |
| 2 |
Intent (2) Harry puts his career on the line to prove his lover's innocence after Leo is attacked and Levin turns up dead. |
January 8, 2010 |
| 3 |
Voids (1) Harry and Nikki try to remain professional when they find themselves on opposite sides of a high-profile case, but it's not easy as they're both brilliant at what they do, and they soon show that every piece of evidence can be interpreted at least two ways. |
January 14, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Guilty Mind (1) When the pathologists investigate three suspicious deaths in one night on the same ward, it looks like hospital staff may be behind their murders. Nikki becomes increasingly disturbed by a rape and murder case involving a young child. |
January 3, 2011 |
| 2 |
A Guilty Mind (2) Nikki's mental instability worsens, and Harry and Leo are forced to get her psychiatric help. But then when the true identity of the murderer is discovered, it becomes a race against time to save Nikki's life. |
January 4, 2011 |
| 3 |
Lost (1) Leo finds himself haunted by past memories when he returns to Sheffield after an ancient body is unearthed on Bleaklow Moor. |
January 10, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Death Has No Dominion (1) When Leo's friend commits suicide, Harry and Nikki are called to the scene of a violent and calculated murder, which is thought to be the work of an apparently dormant serial killer. |
April 1, 2012 |
| 2 |
Death Has No Dominion (2) Harry and DI James deviate from the original investigation to secretly test DNA evidence from the rival Chesham laboratory to try to solve this stalled case. |
April 2, 2012 |
| 3 |
Domestic (1) Harry is disturbed to be called to a crime scene at the home of a family he knows, and finds the bodies of the mother and her teenage daughter, while her stepson lies in a coma - although her toddler has been left unharmed. The police suspect the woman's husband to be the killer - but the pathologist is not so sure of his guilt. The double-murder investigation reveals more about the tangled lives of the inhabitants of Magnolia Drive |
April 8, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Change (1) The mysterious death of a wealthy confectionery firm owner plunges Nikki, Leo and new recruit Jack Hodgson into a murky world of corporate subterfuge. |
January 10, 2013 |
| 2 |
Change (2) When two women close to a dead businessman are murdered, Nikki, Jack and Leo open his family's skeleton-packed closet. |
January 11, 2013 |
| 3 |
Trust (1) The murders of two women in a house basement force Jack to lock horns with an old flame, while Leo wrestles with providing a second post-mortem on a baby. |
January 17, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Commodity (1) Premiership footballer Isaac Dreyfus finds his career in tatters after a sex tape links him to the brutal murder of a young woman, threatening to destroy both his reputation and marriage. He is desperate to prove his innocence, while Adam Freedman turns to a mysterious source for help to avenge the murder of his wife and child. Nikki finds it hard to deal with Leo’s death following the arrival of the new Lyell Centre boss, pathologist Thomas Chamberlain. |
January 2, 2014 |
| 2 |
Commodity (2) Isaac Dreyfus fights to prove his innocence, whilst Adam Freedman turns to a mysterious source for help get revenge for the murder of his wife and child. Nikki questions the motive behind the murders and a re-examination of the Freedman crime scene leads Jack to make a shocking discovery. |
January 3, 2014 |
| 3 |
Coup de Grace (1) Nikki finds her professionalism being brought into question during the case of convicted killer David Bennetto, who was jailed for the murder of two gay teenagers. Thomas attempts to save The Lyell Centre’s reputation. |
January 9, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sniper's Nest (1) Nikki and Jack strive to track down a sniper at large in London and stem a public crisis. |
January 6, 2015 |
| 2 |
Sniper's Nest (2) Nikki and Jack investigate links between the victims to close the net on the killer. |
January 7, 2015 |
| 3 |
Falling Angels (1) Nikki and Jack investigate a man killed by a train on the London underground. |
January 12, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
After the Fall (1) Nikki arrives at a murder scene to find it's a carbon copy of a case in her past. |
January 4, 2016 |
| 2 |
After the Fall (2) Nikki becomes the prime suspect after a former colleague is murdered. |
January 5, 2016 |
| 3 |
Flight (1) A young British Muslim returns to the UK, and concerns over her intentions soon escalate. |
January 11, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Fuji TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 6, 2022 |
| Last aired | December 22, 2022 |
| Runtime | 54 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 22:00:00 |