Top Knot Detective

Top Knot Detective (2017)

The greatest 90's Japanese samurai series you've never heard of

In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.

Date of release
2017-04-01
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Action
Director
Aaron McCann, Dominic Pearce

Casting

Interesting facts

Top Knot Detective is a 2017 mockumentary film directed by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce. It humorously chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional Japanese samurai/detective series, known in Japan as Ronin Suiri Tentai and in the West as Top Knot Detective.

Production

Originally shot as a short film for Australian broadcaster SBS in 2014, the film was later greenlit in late 2015 and shot in 2016 in the Australian cities of Perth and Sydney, and also the Japanese cities of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. To achieve the authentic look of an "archival documentary" the filmmakers dumped all of the 4K footage to VHS before recapturing the media and presenting it as if it was "uncovered" archival tapes.

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