Keigo Higashino Adaptations
This list is for adaptations of Keigo Higashino novels. I am not quite sure whether I can find all of them, so if you know one that isn't on here, please add it to the list.
Keigo Higashino passed away on July 23, 2026. I am making this list partly to commemorate his work and partly so that I can watch as many as possible.
Convenientalias 14 hours ago
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![The Devotion of Suspect X]()
Shi Hong, a reclusive math teacher, enjoys the company of his neighbor, divorcee Chen Jing, and her daughter. When Chen Jing's abusive ex-husband, Fu Jian, threatens them and is accidentally killed, Shi ...more -
![Suspect X]()
A male body is discovered. He is strangled to death where his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Utsumi Kaoru is assigned to the case. The police face ...more -
![Perfect Number]()
Seok Ho was a child genius but now lives an average life as a high school math teacher. When his new neighbor, Hwa Sun, moves into the apartment next door, she becomes ...more -
![g@me.]()
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he ...more -
![Lakeside Murder Case]()
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One ...more -
![Henshin]()
Henshin tells the story of Junichi, a young boy who is forced to go through a life-saving brain transplantation. By his side, his girlfriend Kei is watching over him all the time. ...more -
![The Hovering Blade]()
A father is planning revenge on the young criminals who murdered his daughter and the police who are trying to stop him -this drama brings to light the deep divide within society ...more -
![Into the White Night]()
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't ...more -
![In the City of Dawn]()
By chance, Watabe meets subordinate worker Nakanishi at batting center. A friendship occurs which leads to a heated love affair. Watabe then learns that Nakanishi is the prime suspect of a murder ...more -
![The Wings of the Kirin]()
A man's body is found under the statue of a giraffe with wings in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he ...more -
![Platinum Data]()
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at ...more -
![A Midsummer's Equation]()
Yukawa Manabu is invited for a presentation on Submarine Mineral Resources Development in Harigaura. He stays at an inn. Manabu meets Kyohei, who comes to the inn, which is run by his ...more -
![The Big Bee]()
Set in 1995. Terrorists hijack a massive state of the art Japan Self-Defense Force helicopter called “Big B” and remotely direct it to hover menacingly over a nuclear power plant. At the ...more -
![Shippu Rondo]()
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. They can't even call the police because of the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message ...more -
![The Miracles of the Namiya General Store]()
In the year 2012, three delinquents including Atsuya discover that their hideout, a run-of-the-mill general store, was owned by an elderly man who gave free advice to worried people through letters. Something ...more -
![The House Where The Mermaid Sleeps]()
Kazumasa and Kaoruko are in a troubled marriage and have agreed to divorce once their daughter's elementary school entrance exams are over. However, just before they are to rehearse for the oral ...more -
![The Crimes That Bind]()
A strangled female corpse is discovered in an apartment, and the apartment's resident has vanished. The investigation hits rough waters, but soon they learn about female theater director Asai. Detective Matsumiya forges ...more -
![Laplace's Witch]()
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at ...more -
![Masquerade Hotel]()
Three murders occur in Tokyo, with numbers left at each scene, possibly indicating the location of the next. Detective Nitta Kosuke investigates, suspecting the next murder will happen at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. ...more -
![Parallel World Love Story]()
"A world" - After graduating from a university, close friends Takashi Tsurug and Tomohiko Miwa begin work at a company which does brain research. One day, Tomohiko introduces Mayuko Tsuno as his ...more -
![Masquerade Night]()
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be ...more -
![Silent Parade]()
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several ...more -
![In an Isolated Cottage on a Snowy Mountain]()
Kuga Kazuyuki aspires to become an actor. He auditions for the lead role in a theater company's next work. Among the 300 people who take part in that audition, only seven people ...more -
![Black Showman]()
Former middle school teacher Kamio Eiichi is murdered by an unknown person. His daughter Kamio Mayo is scheduled to get married in two months, but returns to her hometown because of her ...more -
![Byakuyako]()
When Ryoji finds out that the object of his father's perversion is his first love, Yukiho, he kills him. To his horror, Yukiho's mother forced her to do so to relieve their ...more -
![Galileo]()
A genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Detective Galileo, Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a ...more -
![Ties of Shooting Stars]()
"When we grow up... We'll kill him together." Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just in elementary school, and they vowed to ...more -
![Meitantei no Okite]()
The original writing is a short mystery collection that takes a humorous approach to many of the genre's cliches. Matsuda stars as the "famous detective" Tenkaichi Daigoro, while Kashii Yu plays the ...more -
![Himitsu]()
Naoko and Monami, mother and daughter, are in a bus accident. Naoko dies, but her spirit ends up inhabiting Monami's body. She then returns home to Heisuke, dad, and they try to ...more -
![Shinzanmono]()
In the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo - a woman was murdered. Detective Kaga Kyoichiro, who just transferred to the Nihonbashi police precinct, is placed in charge of the murder case. With ...more -
![Galileo: Kindan no Majutsu]()
The SP depicts an incident that occurred four years before Chinmoku no Parade, where Detectives Kusanagi Shunpei and Makimura Tomoka visited Yukawa Manabu to learn more about a strange video file found ...more -
![The Dangerous Venus]()
Hakuro's father died when he was a child, allowing his mother to re-marry into the wealthy Yagami family. Although Hakuro was also welcomed, he struggled to feel a part of this family. ...more -
![White Night]()
A pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town. Police suspect that he was murdered by an acquaintance, as even the most experienced investigator on the case could identify no signs of ...more -
![Broken]()
Middle school student Soo Jin's body is found at an abandoned bathhouse, and her father, Sang Hyun, is devastated. He receives an anonymous text with information about the killer, leading him to ...more -
![Namiya]()
An evocative story that follows three orphaned youths who stumble upon a letter slipped under the door as they hide out in a food store. They write a response thus beginning a ...more -
![Hovering Blade]()
The single father Li Chang Feng resolutely embarked on the road of revenge after his daughter was abused and killed by several minors. (Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ ...more -
![Welcome to the Game]()
Lu Fei, who owes a huge amount of money to Qin Hai Pei at the casino, meets his daughter Qin Xiao Yao, who is about to run away from home. (Source: Chinese ...more -
![Kidnapping Game]()
Ten days, a kidnapping game, 4 million in ransom and a mystery at its heart. With the 'victim' turning up dead, have the stakes become far too real? Yu Hai is the ...more -
![Revival]()
After the death of a wealthy businessman, his relatives gathered at the Kairou Tei Hotel to wait for the distribution of his multi-billion dollar inheritance. Each person had their own hidden agenda, ...more -
![The Murder in Kairoutei]()
Jiang Yuan Xing has been working at Hongye Group for 10 years, earning the trust and favor of Chairman Gao Guang Yi. She gets sucked into the bitter inheritance fight of the ...more -
![Kairoutei Satsujin Jiken]()
Kiryuu Eriko used to be the secretary of a powerful old man. One day she accompanied him to a family reunion in a traditional pension but after that her lover was killed ...more -
![Dying Eye]()
Bartender Amemura Shinsuke is attacked by a stranger and loses part of his memory. He soon learns he caused the death of Kishinaka Minae in a traffic accident, and his attacker, her ...more -
![Kataomoi]()
Sports writer Nishiwaki Tetsuro, unhappily married to former football club manager Risako, reconnects with old teammates at a reunion. While sneaking into their university grounds, they encounter former club manager Hiura Mizuki, ...more -
![Nemuri no Mori]()
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a ...more -
![Brutus no Shinzo]()
Three men working for the same robotics company discover that they have been fooled by their lover who was triple-dating them. Because she's pregnant and threatening their careers, they decide to join ...more -
![Hakucho to Komori]()
A good lawyer is stabbed to death. A man emerges as a suspect, and his confession should have solved the case. However, the suspect's son, Kuraki Kazuma, and the victim's daughter, Shiraishi ...more
