Seasons & Episodes
Message from the Dead
On a dark and stormy night, Chinami kills her business partner in her remote manor house in the hills. Then the doorbell
The Moving Corpse
After killing a woman in a hit and run, a famous Kabuki actor decides to kill the only witness, a theatre security guard
The Laughing Corpse
Furuhata is called to a scene where a woman has just killed a burglar but a chicken in the oven and a cigarette in the b
The Killing Fax
An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked
The Dirty King
Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.
The Piano Lesson
Furuhata Ninzaburô gets involved in the drama surrounding an elite musical academy when he begins suspecting a fierce p
Rehearsal for Murder
During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furu
Murder Express
A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private
Broadcast Murder
During a live broadcast, a TV psychic desperately in need of validation pretends to find a corpse of a man he himself ha
The Contradictory Corpse
A politician's secretary murders his boss and the boss' mistress staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide. Howeve
Sayonara DJ
Furuhata and Shintaro are assigned to bodyguard a radio DJ who's been receiving threatening messages. However, the DJ tu
The Final Greeting
What happens when the killer you are hunting is your superior? Furuhata is about to find out after he begins suspecting
The Man Who Talks Too Much
A successful lawyer kills his mistress and frames Shintaro Imaizumi for the murder. When the lawyer convinces Shintaro t
The Woman Who Doesn't Smile
A hated, strict headmistress of an all-girls priory school murders a liberal teacher beloved by all the students. In ord
Master of the Game
A devious doctor manipulates a mystery writer into staging his own murder to look like a suicide. The doctor is surprisi
Red or Blue
Shintaro is trapped on a Ferris wheel with a bomb on board and if the amusement park doesn't pay the bomber until noon,
Reward for Hypocrisy
Furuhata's favorite screenwriter murders her domineering sister with an unknown murder weapon. In order to find the weap
Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King
While competing on a TV game show, Furuhata investigates the murder of a costumer found dead in a locked room. He begins
Appraisal: Murder
A scheming antique dealer murders an old potter who was blackmailing him but his accomplice's thoughtless actions jeopar
Magician's Choice
A highly respected magician falls in love with his much younger assistant and murders her boyfriend in front of a captiv
The Wrong Man
A magazine editor concocts and executes the perfect murder in the snowy hills around Tokyo only to then encounter an acq
What Happened in New York
During a long bus trip to New York, a Japanese woman sitting next to Furuhata challenges him to a game. She will tell hi
The Rakugo Murder
A rakugo comedian kills a fellow student and makes it look like a suicide by faking two alibis. Both take each other's p
The Hotel Murder
A perpetually busy media director murders a politician in his hotel room while engaging in a phone call he would later u
The Murder in a Small Village
Furuhata catches a cold and stops in a small village to recover with his colleagues, getting caught up in the entire com
The Dentist Murder
A dentist murders her ex-boyfriend and attempts to use Furuhata as his alibi, tricking him and another witness into thin
The Yoko-chin Anzai Incident
Furuhata receives a mysterious invitation to an old friend's house. Beginning to suspect his friend plans to murder his
The Conductor Murder
A conductor murders a violist he was having an affair with an seeks to frame her new boyfriend. Strangely, he also kills
The Housewife Murder
A presenter of a Go-based TV program kills her manipulative husband who wanted her to remain a housewife forever. The be
The Scientist Murder
A wheelchair-bound scientist kills his colleague and old friend using a deadly gift and some well-timed phone calls. Sai
The Airplane Murder
An archaeologist's affair partner accidentally dies during a fight in an airplane bathroom and flees, desperate to hide
The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 1
A shady group kills a young man but fails to recover the bag he stole. To get it back from a subway lost and found, they
The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 2
Furuhata leaves the station with the suspect, intent on dropping off the ransom money. How will he prove the culprits tr
The Resurrection of Death
Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, b
A Fair Murder
Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none oth
Final Dance
Kyoko Kagami is a pen name for a pair of twin writers. After one sister kills the other, their technical advisor Furuhat
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