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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

Summary

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Details

Release Date: July 14, 1979

Runtime: 113 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Mystery

Rating: 6.4/10 (5 votes)


Kosuke Kindaichi Collection

  • The Inugami Family

    The Inugami Family

    When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

  • Lullaby to Kill

    Lullaby to Kill

    Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

  • Island of Hell

    Island of Hell

    A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

  • Queen Bee

    Queen Bee

    To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.

  • The House of Hanging

    The House of Hanging

    This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

  • The 8-Tomb Village

    The 8-Tomb Village

    A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

  • Village of Eight Gravestones

    Village of Eight Gravestones

    The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo

  • The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

  • Ghost Man

    Ghost Man

    A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

  • The Vampire Moth

    The Vampire Moth

    The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

  • Devil's Nursery Rhyme

    Devil's Nursery Rhyme

    1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.


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Cast

  • Ikko Furuya

    Ikko Furuya

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  • Kunie Tanaka

    Kunie Tanaka

    Lt. Todoroki

  • Miyuki Matsuda

    Miyuki Matsuda

    Maria

  • Hideko Yoshida

    Hideko Yoshida

    Fumie Akechi

  • Chiyonosuke Azuma

    Chiyonosuke Azuma

    Akechi Kojuro

  • Rinichi Yamamoto

    Rinichi Yamamoto

    Yukichi Mori

  • Jiro Sakagami

    Jiro Sakagami

    Goemon Ishida

  • Noboru Nakaya

    Noboru Nakaya

    Kazuya Furugaki

  • Miyoko Akaza

    Miyoko Akaza

    Takako Fujii

  • Daigo Kusano

    Daigo Kusano

    Takagi

  • Fumi Dan

    Fumi Dan

    Train Passenger Solving a Puzzle

  • Shin Kishida

    Shin Kishida

    Dracula in the City

  • Masayo Miyako

    Masayo Miyako

    Bride of Dracula

  • Toshirō Mifune

    Toshirō Mifune

    Kindaichi of 11th Generation in "The Woman in the Eye"

  • Tatsuya Mihashi

    Tatsuya Mihashi

    Inspector Todoroki in "The Woman in the Eye"

  • Toru Minegishi

    Toru Minegishi

    Visitor in "The Woman in the Eye"

  • Isao Natsuyagi

    Isao Natsuyagi

    Koichi Sumida

  • Etsuko Shihomi

    Etsuko Shihomi

    Kindaichi's Neighbor

  • Mariko Okada

    Mariko Okada

    Kyoko Yasugi

  • Kirin Kiki

    Kirin Kiki

  • Tomoko Saitō

    Tomoko Saitō

    Girl Who Loves Kindaichi

  • Megumi Ishii

    Megumi Ishii

  • Shōichi Hirose

    Shōichi Hirose

    Sarah the Great King

  • Megumi Ishii

    Megumi Ishii

    The Regrettable Daughter of a Historical Drama

  • Sakae Umezu

    Sakae Umezu

    Reporter A

  • Jirô Daruma

    Jirô Daruma

    Reporter B

  • Hajime Izu

    Hajime Izu