The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)

6.3/10 113 min Comedy Mystery

Overview

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.

Cast

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

Masayo Miyako

Bride of Dracula

Toshirō Mifune

Kindaichi of 11th Generation in "The Woman in the Eye"

Tatsuya Mihashi

Inspector Todoroki in "The Woman in the Eye"

Toru Minegishi

Visitor in "The Woman in the Eye"

Isao Natsuyagi

Koichi Sumida

Etsuko Shihomi

Kindaichi's Neighbor

Mariko Okada

Kyoko Yasugi

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Film Director

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