is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama 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 - Shibata Jun * Atsuro Watabe - Mayama Tôru * Sarina Suzuki - Kido Aya * Yu Tokui - Kondo Akio *

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- Taniguchi Tsuyoshi * Kenichi Yajima - Hayashida Seiichi * Masashi Arifuku - Nagao Noboru * Mari Nishio - Osawa Maiko * Goro Noguchi - Saotome Jin * Raita Ryu - 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 Yumie Nishiogi (西荻弓絵; born September 3, 1960) is a Japanese screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays o ...

* Producer:

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* Directors: Tsutsumi Yukihiko, Kaneko Fuminori, Imai Natsuki, Isano Hideki * Music:

Mitake Akira Mitake can refer to Companies: *Mitake Tozan Railway, a Japanese transport company in Ōme, Tokyo, Japan Locations: * Mitake, Gifu, a town located in Kani District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan * Mitake, Nagano, a former village located in Kiso District ...

Film (2000)

Cast

*Shibata Jun: Nakatani Miki *Mayama Tôru: Watabe Atsuro *

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* Izumi Pinko *Kunio Tsubosaka:

* Hairi Katagiri *Kera *

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* Katsuyuki Murai *

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*Nanako Ookôchi: Nanako Ôkôchi *Kôtarô Nonomura: Raita Ryu *

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*Aya Kido Sarina Suzuki *

Tomorowo Taguchi is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he m ...

* Masahiro Takaki *Akio Kondô Yu Tokui * Kenichi Yajima

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 ...

*Music: Akira Mitake *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 Po ...

*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