is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a

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and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama. The television series was broadcast in 11 episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the

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genre on Japanese television.

Television

Cast

Miki Nakatani is a Japanese actress and singer. She began her career as a member of the girl group Sakurakko Club from 1991 to 1993, wherein she formed the duo Key West Club with member Keiko Azuma. Nakatani focused on acting after her departure, making he ...

- Shibata Jun *

Atsuro Watabe is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Tokyo, Watabe debuted as an actor on television in 1991 with the drama ''Seishun no mon''. He won awards of excellence in the best actor and new face categories at the 19th Japan Academy Prize (film), Japan A ...

- Mayama Tôru *

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- Kido Aya *

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- Kondo Akio * Hidekazu Nagae - Taniguchi Tsuyoshi *

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- Hayashida Seiichi *

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- Nagao Noboru *

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- Osawa Maiko *

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- Saotome Jin *

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- Nonomura Koutarou *

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-Tsubosaka Kunio

Episode Titles

*01: "Phone Call from the Dead Man" *02: "Punishment Table of Ice" *03: "The Wiretapped Murderer" *04: "The Room of Certain Death" *05: "The Man Who Saw the Future" *06: "The Wickedest Bombing-Demon" *07: "Death Curse of the Oil Painting" *08: "Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat" *09: "Future Revenge of the Past" *10: "Your Own Two Eyes" *11: "The Kiss of Death's Flavor"

Production

* Screenwriter: Nishiogi Yumie * Producer: Ueda Hiroki * Directors:

Tsutsumi Yukihiko is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, ''Office Crescendo'', from w ...

, Kaneko Fuminori,

Imai Natsuki Imai ( — characters for "now" and "water well", meaning "new place of residence") is a Japanese surname. ''The Japanese characters link to the Japanese-language Wikipedia'' *, Japanese animator *Asami Imai ( 今井麻美), voice actor *Eriko Im ...

, Isano Hideki * Music: Mitake Akira

Film (2000)

Cast

*Shibata Jun:

Nakatani Miki is a Japanese actress and singer. She began her career as a member of the girl group Sakurakko Club from 1991 to 1993, wherein she formed the duo Key West Club with member Keiko Azuma. Nakatani focused on acting after her departure, making he ...

*Mayama Tôru:

Watabe Atsuro is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Tokyo, Watabe debuted as an actor on television in 1991 with the drama ''Seishun no mon''. He won awards of excellence in the best actor and new face categories at the 19th Japan Academy Prize in 1996 for th ...

Hideyo Amamoto was a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original '' Kamen Rider'' series as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and the ''Godzilla'' series. Amamoto also ...

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Izumi Pinko is a Japanese actress and singer. Her legal name is , and she originally performed under the name . Filmography Television * '' Onna Taikoki'' (NHK, 1981) as Asahi no kata * ''Oshin'' as Fuji (NHK, 1983) * ''Sanga Moyu'' (NHK, 1984) * ''Inoch ...

*Kunio Tsubosaka:

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*Kera *

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Katsuyuki Murai (born December 17, 1969) is a Japanese actor known for playing the Rose Orphnoch in ''Kamen Rider 555''. Roles *''Kamen Rider 555'' as Kyoji Murakami/Rose Orphnoch *'' Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost'' as Kyoji Murakami *'' Kamen Rider Blade ...

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*Nanako Ookôchi:

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*Kôtarô Nonomura:

* Toshiya Sakai *Aya Kido

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* Masahiro Takaki *Akio Kondô

Production

*Director:

Yukihiko Tsutsumi is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, ''Office Crescendo'', from w ...

*Music:

Akira Mitake Akira Mitake (見岳章; born November 11, 1956) is a Japanese composer from Tokyo. Mitake composed , ''Like the Flow of the River'', a song recorded by Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. Sh ...

*Cinematography: Satoru Karasawa *Editing: Soichi Ueno *Visual effects supervisor:

Fumihiko Sori Fumihiko Sori (曽利文彦) is a Japanese film director and film producer. He received a nomination for the 'Best Director' prize at the Japanese Academy Awards for his directing debut, ''Ping Pong''. Filmography Director *2002 ''Ping Pong'' ...

*Visual effects(Renderman): Bernard Edlington

References

External links

* * 1999 Japanese television series debuts 1999 Japanese television series endings Kin'yō Dorama 2000 films Television shows written by Yumie Nishiogi Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in fiction Japanese detective television drama series 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub