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Stolen Face

2019 · 1 season

A quiet, brooding procedural that turns face-recognition into a haunting hunt for a ghost from the past.

Created by
Masaharu Take
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Overview
Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted criminals by only relying on their faces. One day, he sees Sunami's face who was a senior detective, but had a mysterious death 4 years ago.

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Created by
Masaharu Take
Genres
Crime, Mystery
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • mystery
  • memory
  • isolation
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
crime, mystery
Created by
Masaharu Take
Written by
Shin Adachi
Starring
Hiroshi Tamaki, Rio Uchida, Keita Machida, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Ayumi Ito, Yuri Nakamura, Tomomi Maruyama, Shigenori Yamazaki
Music
Shogo Kaida
Length
1 seasons, 5 episodes, 50 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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