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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.

  • Death at an Old Mansion

    Death at an Old Mansion

    A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.

  • 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