The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
金田一耕助の冒険
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-07-14
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Director
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
Casting
- Ikko Furuya — Kosuke Kindaichi
- Kunie Tanaka — Lt. Todoroki
- Miyuki Matsuda — Maria
- Hideko Yoshida — Fumie Akechi
- Chiyonosuke Azuma — Akechi Kojuro
- Rinichi Yamamoto — Yukichi Mori
- Jiro Sakagami — Goemon Ishida
- Noboru Nakaya — Kazuya Furugaki
- Miyoko Akaza — Takako Fujii
- Daigo Kusano — Takagi
- Fumi Dan — Train Passenger Solving a Puzzle
- Shin Kishida — Dracula in the City
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