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
Original Language: JA
Rating: ⭐ 6.4/10 (5 votes)
Kosuke Kindaichi Collection

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

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
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.

Murder of the Inugami Clan
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.

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

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

Devil's Nursery Rhyme
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
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Cast

Ikko Furuya
Kosuke Kindaichi

Kunie Tanaka
Lt. Todoroki

Miyuki Matsuda
Maria

Hideko Yoshida
Fumie Akechi

Chiyonosuke Azuma
Akechi Kojuro

Rinichi Yamamoto
Yukichi Mori

Jiro Sakagami
Goemon Ishida

Noboru Nakaya
Kazuya Furugaki

Miyoko Akaza
Takako Fujii

Daigo Kusano
Takagi

Fumi Dan
Train Passenger Solving a Puzzle

Shin Kishida
Dracula in the City

Masayo Miyako
Bride of Dracula

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

Tatsuya Mihashi
Inspector Todoroki in "The Woman in the Eye"

Toru Minegishi
Visitor in "The Woman in the Eye"

Isao Natsuyagi
Koichi Sumida

Etsuko Shihomi
Kindaichi's Neighbor

Mariko Okada
Kyoko Yasugi

Kirin Kiki

Tomoko Saitō
Girl Who Loves Kindaichi

Shōichi Hirose
Sarah the Great King

Megumi Ishii
The Regrettable Daughter of a Historical Drama

Sakae Umezu
Reporter A

Jirô Daruma
Reporter B

Hajime Izu

Gajirō Satō
Yutaro Takojima

Asami Ogawa
Ayaka

Akira Ōizumi
Old Man

Rika Miwa
Children's Leader Rika









