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12 episodes

Furuhata Ninzaburo - Season 1

First aired Apr 13, 1994Season 1

Browse all 12 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Message from the Dead

8.3
Apr 13, 199447 min3 votes

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 Inspector Furuhata seeking refuge from the rain.

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Episode 2

The Moving Corpse

9.0
Apr 20, 199447 min1 votes

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 Furuhata Ninazburo is not convinced.

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Episode 3

The Laughing Corpse

9.0
Apr 27, 199460 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 4

The Killing Fax

10.0
May 4, 199460 min1 votes

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. However, a grammatical question niggles at Furuhata.

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Episode 5

The Dirty King

9.0
May 11, 199460 min1 votes

Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.

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Episode 6

The Piano Lesson

10.0
May 18, 199460 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 7

Rehearsal for Murder

10.0
May 25, 199460 min1 votes

During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furuhata Ninzaburo investigates.

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Episode 8

Murder Express

9.0
Jun 1, 199460 min1 votes

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 but unfortunately for him, Furuhata Ninzaburo is on board.

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Episode 9

Broadcast Murder

9.0
Jun 8, 199460 min1 votes

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 convinced is Inspector Furuhata.

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Episode 10

The Contradictory Corpse

9.0
Jun 15, 199460 min1 votes

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 for recovery.

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Episode 11

Sayonara DJ

10.0
Jun 22, 199460 min1 votes

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 watertight alibi.

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Episode 12

The Final Greeting

9.0
Jun 29, 199460 min1 votes

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 killed his daughter.