Unsolved Cases Explained

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.^[1] A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.^[2]

Television

Cast

• Miki Nakatani - Shibata Jun
• Atsuro Watabe - Mayama Tôru
• Sarina Suzuki - Kido Aya
• Yu Tokui - Kondo Akio
• Hidekazu Nagae - Taniguchi Tsuyoshi
• Kenichi Yajima - Hayashida Seiichi
• Masashi Arifuku - Nagao Noboru
• Mari Nishio - Osawa Maiko
• Goro Noguchi - Saotome Jin
• Raita Ryu - Nonomura Koutarou
• Shigeru Izumiya -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, Kaneko Fuminori, Imai Natsuki, Isano Hideki
• Music: Mitake Akira

Film (2000)

Cast

• Shibata Jun: Nakatani Miki
• Mayama Tôru: Watabe Atsuro
  • • • • Hideyo Amamoto Inuko Inuyama David Ito Izumi Pinko Kunio Tsubosaka: Shigeru Izumiya
  • Hairi Katagiri Kera
• Koyuki
  • Katsuyuki Murai Katsuhisa Namase
• Nanako Ookôchi: Nanako Ôkôchi
• Kôtarô Nonomura: Raita Ryu
• Toshiya Sakai
• Aya Kido Sarina Suzuki
  • Tomorowo Taguchi Masahiro Takaki
• Akio Kondô Yu Tokui
• Kenichi Yajima

Production

• Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  • Music: Akira Mitake Cinematography: Satoru Karasawa
• Editing: Soichi Ueno
• Visual effects supervisor: Fumihiko Sori
• Visual effects(Renderman): Bernard Edlington

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keizoku. TV Drama Database. 21 January 2013.
2. News: Tanaka. Takanobu. 「ケイゾク」…新時代開いた刑事もの. 21 January 2013. Yomiuri Shinbun. 8 October 2012.