The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

Comedy, Mystery · 1979

Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Starring

Ikko Furuya, Daisaku Kimura, Shinya Inoue, Kunie Tanaka, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Miyuki Matsuda, Kōichi Saitō, Hideko Yoshida, Akira Nakano, Chiyonosuke Azuma

Director

Nobuhiko Obayashi