Keizoku: Unsolved Cases

8.3
199947m

Keizoku 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 eleven 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 police procedural genre on Japanese television.

Seasons

11 Episodes • Premiered 1999

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 1: Phone Call From The Dead Man

1. Phone Call From The Dead Man

Shibata starts her first day of work at the MPD. She is assigned to the cold case section. Her first case is to figure out how a dead salesman has come back to life.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 2: Punishment Table Of Ice

2. Punishment Table Of Ice

Shibata and her partner Mayama are assigned a literal cold case at a refrigerated warehouse. Mayama continues stalk the man who killed his sister.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 3: The Wiretapped Murderer

3. The Wiretapped Murderer

Shibata goes on her first stakeout to solve the murder of a philandering husband. Detective Kondo deals with a mystery of his own.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 4: The Room Of Certain Death

4. The Room Of Certain Death

Shibata and the cold case squad investigate a series of murders at a cursed inn. Mayama is hassled by a reporter about his stalking of Asakura, the man he believes killed his sister.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 5: The Man Who Saw The Future

5. The Man Who Saw The Future

Shibata sets out to prove a psychic is a fake. Asakura decides to go on the offensive against Mayama.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 6: The Wickedest Bombing-Demon

6. The Wickedest Bombing-Demon

Chief Detective Kunio asks the cold case unit for help to solve a 15 year old school bombing before he retires.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 7: Death Curse Of The Oil Painting

7. Death Curse Of The Oil Painting

While Shibata investigates a haunted painting, the case takes a shocking turn. Asakura begins to stalk Shibata.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 8: Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat

8. Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat

After a party, Shibata wakes up next to a murdered man. On the run with her friend Maiko, she tries to prove her innocence.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 9: Future Revenge Of The Past

9. Future Revenge Of The Past

Shibata sets out to prove that Asakura was behind the death of Mayama's sister. The MPD believes Mayama has gone rogue and decides to take action.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 10: Your Own Two Eyes

10. Your Own Two Eyes

Mayama is on the run from the MPD Sweeper Unit. The Asakura case takes a dramatic turn, and the cold case unit will never be the same.

Still image for Keizoku: Unsolved Cases season 1 episode 11: The Kiss Of Death's Flavor

11. The Kiss Of Death's Flavor

The Sweepers continue to pursue the surviving members of the cold case section. Asakura enacts his final plan to destroy Shibata and Mayama.

Cast

Photo of Miki Nakatani

Miki Nakatani

Jun Shibata

Photo of Atsuro Watabe

Atsuro Watabe

Tooru Mayama

Photo of Shigeru Izumiya

Shigeru Izumiya

Kunio Tsubosaka

Photo of Kenichi Yajima

Kenichi Yajima

Seiichi Hayashida

Photo of Hidekazu Nagae

Hidekazu Nagae

Tsuyoshi Taniguchi

Photo of Mari Nishio

Mari Nishio

Maiko Osawa

Photo of Goro Noguchi

Goro Noguchi

Jin Saotome

Photo of Raita Ryu

Raita Ryu

Koutarou Nonomura

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