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Blood on the Tracks

2014 · 1 season

A slow, serious police procedural that trades action for quiet institutional tension and the uneasy sense that the system is protecting itself.

Genres
Crime, Mystery
Overview
An ex-detective, Kagawa, is found dead in a park in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Swearing revenge, detectives of the #1 investigation team, including Tozawa (Shosuke Tanihara), begin to investigate Kagawa’s death. Meanwhile, Sono (Masanobu Takashima), at the public security bureau, orders his subordinate Shimizu (Taizo Harada), to uncover the truth behind the case in secret. Sono believes the maintenance of trust held by the general public for the police could be jeopardized if anything afoul is discovered in the case stemming from the police. Sono wants to coverup the case as unsolved if the police are involved.

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Crime, Mystery
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • crime
    • conspiracy
    • corruption
    • power
    • betrayal
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism7
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    crime, mystery
    Created by
    Yoshinori Kobayashi
    Written by
    Eriko Shinozaki
    Starring
    Shin Takuma, Kenta Satoi, Hidenori Tokuyama, Kyusaku Shimada, Tao Okamoto, Taizo Harada, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Yumiko Shaku
    Music
    Kei Haneoka
    Length
    1 seasons, 4 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    WOWOW Prime
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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