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The Millionaire Detective

2005–2006 · 2 seasons

A breezy, quirky police procedural where upper-class eccentricity clashes with gruff station-house routine, making each case feel like a light puzzle solved with style.

Created by
Yûichi Abe, Jota Tsunehiro
Genres
Mystery, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Kyoko Fukada, Kazuma Suzuki, Ryuji Sainei
Overview
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako, a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. However, to everyone’s surprise, Miwako’s unique investigation lead by an ultra rich sense of value becomes the key to solve mysterious cases, one by one!

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Created by
Yûichi Abe, Jota Tsunehiro
Genres
Mystery, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Kyoko Fukada, Kazuma Suzuki, Ryuji Sainei
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • crime
  • identity
  • work
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
mystery, comedy, drama, crime
Created by
Yûichi Abe, Jota Tsunehiro, Toshikazu Nagae
Starring
Kyoko Fukada, Kazuma Suzuki, Ryuji Sainei, Shinji Yamashita, Takeshi Masu, Kazuyuki Aijima, Susumu Terajima, Tokuma Nishioka
Length
2 seasons, 20 episodes, 49 min each
Network
tv asahi
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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