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.
Cast: Miki Nakatani, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeru Izumiya
Season 1
11 episodes
1. Phone Call From The Dead ManShibata 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.CC47minJan 8, 1999
2. Punishment Table Of IceShibata and her partner Mayama are assigned a literal cold case at a refrigerated warehouse. Mayama continues stalk the man who killed his sister.CC48minJan 15, 1999
3. The Wiretapped MurdererShibata goes on her first stakeout to solve the murder of a philandering husband. Detective Kondo deals with a mystery of his own.CC48minJan 22, 1999
4. The Room Of Certain DeathShibata 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.CC47minJan 29, 1999
5. The Man Who Saw The FutureShibata sets out to prove a psychic is a fake. Asakura decides to go on the offensive against Mayama.CC47minFeb 5, 1999
6. The Wickedest Bombing-DemonChief Detective Kunio asks the cold case unit for help to solve a 15 year old school bombing before he retires.CC48minFeb 12, 1999
7. Death Curse Of The Oil PaintingWhile Shibata investigates a haunted painting, the case takes a shocking turn. Asakura begins to stalk Shibata.CC48minFeb 19, 1999
8. Farewell, Lovely CutthroatAfter a party, Shibata wakes up next to a murdered man. On the run with her friend Maiko, she tries to prove her innocence.CC48minFeb 26, 1999
9. Future Revenge Of The PastShibata 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.CC47minMar 5, 1999
10. Your Own Two EyesMayama 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.CC47minMar 12, 1999
11. The Kiss Of Death's FlavorThe Sweepers continue to pursue the surviving members of the cold case section. Asakura enacts his final plan to destroy Shibata and Mayama.CC47minMar 19, 1999
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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.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Hiroki Ueda
Maturity rating
Not yet rated.
Audio languages
Japanese
