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A series of films about private detective Kosuke Kindaichi solving murder cases. Starring Koji Ishizaka in the titular role, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

  • Number of Movies: 13
  • Revenue: $10,646,000

Featured Cast

  1. Koji Ishizaka

    Koji Ishizaka

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  2. Kenichi Hagiwara

    Kenichi Hagiwara

    Tatsuya Terada

  3. Ken Takakura

    Ken Takakura

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  4. Takeshi Kaga

    Takeshi Kaga

    Kousuke Kindaichi

  5. Etsushi Toyokawa

    Etsushi Toyokawa

    Kousuke Kindaichi

  6. Seizaburō Kawazu

    Seizaburō Kawazu

    Kousuke Kindaichi

  7. Ryō Ikebe

    Ryō Ikebe

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  8. Ikko Furuya

    Ikko Furuya

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  9. Yōko Tsukasa

    Yōko Tsukasa

    Katsuno, Tsutayo

  10. Kunie Tanaka

    Kunie Tanaka

    , Lt. Todoroki

  11. Keiko Kishi

    Keiko Kishi

    Hideko Kamio, Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)

  12. Yuko Asano

    Yuko Asano

    Tsukiyo Kito, Miyako Mori

  13. Nanako Matsushima

    Nanako Matsushima

    Tamayo Nonomiya

  14. Haruo Tanaka

    Haruo Tanaka

    Yosuke Kikuchi

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October 13, 1954

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

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

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

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.

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.

August 27, 1977

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

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

June 29, 1978

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.

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.

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.

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

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

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.

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