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.
GENRES:
Comedy • Mystery
DIRECTION:
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Cast & Characters
| Ikko Furuya | Kosuke Kindaichi |
| Kunie Tanaka | Lt Todoroki |
| Miyoko Akaza | |
| Hideko Yoshida | Fumie Akechi |
| Chiyonosuke Azuma | |
| Fumi Dan | |
| Rinichi Yamamoto | Yukichi Mori (an old man in a retirement home) |
| Jiro Sakagami | Goemon Ishida |
| Toshio Egi | |
| Noboru Nakaya | Kazuya Furugaki from New Art Association |
| Jun Harada | |
| Shinsaku Himeda |