Drama: Smoke and Mist: Gold Rush (literal title)
Romaji: Enka -Gold Rush-
Japanese: 煙霞 -Gold Rush-
Director: Shotaro Kobayashi
Writer: Hiroyuki Kurokawa (novel), Michiru Egashira
Network: WOWOW
Episodes:
Release Date: July 18, 2015 –
Runtime:
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Kumagai (Mirai Moriyama) is an art teacher at a private female high school. Sakai (Bunchin Katsura), the school’s chairman of the board, runs the school like the school is his own property and pays Kumagi a low salary. Then, Music Teacher Naoko (Mitsuki Takahata) and P.E. Teacher Oyamada (Hiroyuki Onoue) asks Kumagi to join them in a scheme to blackmail Sakai.

Unexpectedly, Sakai and his girlfriend Akemi (Yuri Nakamura) go missing. The duo are assumed to be kidnapped by Minowa (Houka Kinoshita) and Nakao (Yuichi Kimura) who are education consultants. Meanwhile, Kumagai and Naoko unwittingly become involved in a scheme to steal large amount of gold bars that were hidden by Sakai.

Notes
Based on the novel “Enka” by Hiroyuki Kurokawa (published January, 2009 by Bungeishunju Ltd.).

Cast
Mirai Moriyama as Toru Kumagai
Mitsuki Takahata as Naoko Masamoto
Yuri Nakamura as Akemi Morino
Houka Kinoshita as Katsuhisa Minowa
Yuichi Kimura as Shuichi Nakao
Hiroyuki Onoue as Oyamada
Bunchin Katsura as Yuzo Sakai