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Keizoku: Unsolved Cases

1999 · 1 season

A cerebral, quietly tense procedural that draws you into the minds of detectives untangling cold cases, with a moody, character-driven atmosphere.

Created by
Fuminori Kaneko, Hideki Isano
Genres
Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Miki Nakatani, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeru Izumiya
Overview
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.

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Created by
Fuminori Kaneko, Hideki Isano
Genres
Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Miki Nakatani, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeru Izumiya
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • crime
  • justice
  • obsession
  • memory
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, crime, mystery
Created by
Fuminori Kaneko, Hideki Isano, Natsuki Imai, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Written by
Yumie Nishiogi, Higashi Shimizu
Starring
Miki Nakatani, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeru Izumiya, Kenichi Yajima, Sarina Suzuki, Hidekazu Nagae, Mari Nishio, Goro Noguchi
Music
Akira Mitake
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 47 min each
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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