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Alibi Breaker

2020 · 1 season

A gentle, puzzle-driven mystery that feels like watching a quiet clockmaker methodically take apart a lie, with low stakes and a warm small-town backdrop.

Created by
Hayato Kawai, Hoshino Kazunari
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Starring
Ryo Narita, Minami Hamabe, Ken Yasuda
Overview
In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?

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Created by
Hayato Kawai, Hoshino Kazunari
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Starring
Ryo Narita, Minami Hamabe, Ken Yasuda
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • justice
  • work
  • deception
  • loyalty
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
mystery, crime
Created by
Hayato Kawai, Hoshino Kazunari
Written by
Yoshihiro Izumi
Starring
Ryo Narita, Minami Hamabe, Ken Yasuda, Tokio Emoto, Yuta Inoue, Takuya Mizoguchi, Hitomi Korenaga, Leo Morimoto
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 40 min each
Network
tv asahi
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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