Suga Kantaro

Suga Kantaro was a leading Japanese actor. His film credits span three decades, from 1960 to 1990. One of his prominent appearances was in the lead role in Pastoral: To Die in the Country. Suga also appeared in The Gate of Youth, Sword of the Beast, and Theater of Life. He also portrays Akizuki Soichiro…

Yamamura So

So Yamamura was a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1947 and 1991, and directed four films. He was also known by the name Satoshi Yamamura, while his actual birth name is Koga Hirosada. Source: Wikipedia

Edogawa Ranpo

Taro Hirai, better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known…

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories IV: Shin! Shonen Tantei-dan

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Twenty-Faced Phantom: "No one knows which face is the real one." He is a master of disguise, Twenty-Faced Phantom. He steals a diamond-related to the Romanov royal family with his daring trick. Kobayashi, the leader…

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories II: Ayashii Ai no Monogatari

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Nanimono: A man has been staying at the house of a friend, Yuki, who lives in Kamakura. A mysterious man called Akai also comes and goes. One night, Yuki is shot in his ankles in the study. The footprints left behind…

Minato Kanae

Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. In youth, she…

Takagi Akimitsu

Takagi Akimitsu was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko)…

Higashino Keigo

Higashino Keigo was born in the Ikuno Ward of Osaka City. He incorporates his experience in his hometown into his works, notable examples include "Byakuya" and "Namiwa Shonen Tanteidan". Originally, his last name was read as Tono but his father changed the reading to Higashino. He graduated from the…

Hatsuru Soko Naki

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A financial mystery dramatization of a work that received the Edogawa Ranpo Award, starring Watanabe Ken. A banker challenges a horrendous crime! After borrowing large sums of money from a branch bank, Yanagiba, the…

Miyaguchi Jiro

Matsuhashi Noboru

Matsuhashi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Ichikawa, Chiba on November 3, 1944. After dropping out of university, he joined a theater company in 1967. He attracted attention there playing the leading role of "Hamlet". In 1970, he had his debut in movies opposite Yoshinaga Sayuri in "Seishun…

Mitsuya Utako

Mitsuya Utako was a Japanese actress born in Japan. She was married to Onoda Yoshiki. She died on March 24, 2004, in Tokyo, Japan. (Source: IMDb); edited by MyDramaList)

Murasugi Seminosuke

Murasugi Seminosuke is a Japanese actor affiliated with the theater company Otona Keikaku. On December 11, 2023, it was revealed that he had been arrested on suspicion of violating the Special Drug Provisions Act. (Source: Tokyohive)

Rampo

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Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him…

Horrors of Malformed Men

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After escaping from an asylum, young medical student Hirosuke assumes the identity of a dead man in order to solve the mystery of a weird doppelganger whose picture he sees in the newspaper. Traveling to faraway Panorama…

Murder on D Street

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The brilliant detective Kogoro Akechi has shied away disillusioned. A puzzling murder involving falsification of erotic art makes him, however, to return to work. Two tales of horror author Edogawa Rampo faced each…

Edogawa Ranpo 'Ryokui no Oni' Yori: Shiroi Ningyo no Bijo

Based on book Ryokui no Oni (緑衣の鬼) by Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩),

Edogawa Ranpo Gekijou: Oshie to Tabi Suru Otoko

~~ Adapted from the book Oshie to Tabi Suru Otoko by Edogawa Ranpo.

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories I: 1925-nen no Akechi Kogoro

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Three classics from Edogawa Rampo's golden era of short stories come to life in this drama series special. Witness Akechi Kogoro's humble beginnings in the 'The Case of the Murder on D. Hill,' his dramatic exposure…

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories III: Mitsushima Hikari x Edogawa Ranpo

Osei Toujou Story: The bewitching Osei (Mitsushima Hikari) is married to a wealthy husband (Kudo Kankuro) whose poor health gives her the opportunity to indulge in an affair. Although she trembles with a guilty conscience,…