Unsolved Cases (ケイゾク, 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 11 episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999 on TBS Television and JNN affiliate stations. 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.
Contents
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