The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
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.
- Released
- 1979-07-14
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Ikko Furuya as Kosuke Kindaichi
- Kunie Tanaka as Lt. Todoroki
- Miyuki Matsuda as Maria
- Hideko Yoshida as Fumie Akechi
- Chiyonosuke Azuma as Akechi Kojuro
- Rinichi Yamamoto as Yukichi Mori
- Jiro Sakagami as Goemon Ishida
- Noboru Nakaya as Kazuya Furugaki
- Miyoko Akaza as Takako Fujii
- Daigo Kusano as Takagi
- Fumi Dan as Train Passenger Solving a Puzzle
- Shin Kishida as Dracula in the City
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