Furuhata Ninzaburo: Season 1
Episode Guide
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Message from the Dead
Apr 13, 1994 · 47 min
On a dark and stormy night, Chinami kills her business partner in her remote manor house in the hills. Then the doorbell rings. As luck would have it, it's none other than Inspecto
The Moving Corpse
Apr 20, 1994 · 47 min
After killing a woman in a hit and run, a famous Kabuki actor decides to kill the only witness, a theatre security guard, and stage it to look like an accidental fall. Only Furuhat
The Laughing Corpse
Apr 27, 1994 · 60 min
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 bin make the wily inspector suspicious.
The Killing Fax
May 4, 1994 · 60 min
An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked with delivering the money by the fax-using kidnapper. Howeve
The Dirty King
May 11, 1994 · 60 min
Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.
The Piano Lesson
May 18, 1994 · 60 min
Furuhata Ninzaburô gets involved in the drama surrounding an elite musical academy when he begins suspecting a fierce piano teacher of murdering the school's headmaster.
Rehearsal for Murder
May 25, 1994 · 60 min
During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furuhata Ninzaburo investigates.
Murder Express
Jun 1, 1994 · 60 min
A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private eye. He decides to kill the nosy gumshoe on the train home b
Broadcast Murder
Jun 8, 1994 · 60 min
During a live broadcast, a TV psychic desperately in need of validation pretends to find a corpse of a man he himself had killed earlier. The only person in the audience not convin
The Contradictory Corpse
Jun 15, 1994 · 60 min
A politician's secretary murders his boss and the boss' mistress staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide. However, one of his victims survives and is taken to the hospital
Sayonara DJ
Jun 22, 1994 · 60 min
Furuhata and Shintaro are assigned to bodyguard a radio DJ who's been receiving threatening messages. However, the DJ turns out to be the killer with a devious plan and a watertigh
The Final Greeting
Jun 29, 1994 · 60 min
What happens when the killer you are hunting is your superior? Furuhata is about to find out after he begins suspecting the legendary Superintendent Kogure of murdering the man who