Unsolved Cases

Unsolved Cases (ケイゾク) is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama.

The television series was broadcast in 11 episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.

Cast

 * Miki Nakatani - Shibata Jun
 * Atsuro Watabe - Mayama Tôru
 * Sarina Suzuki - Kido Aya
 * Yu Tokui - Kondo Akio
 * Hidekazu Nagae - Taniguchi Tsuyoshi
 * Kenichi Yajima - Hayashida Seiichi
 * Masashi Arifuku - Nagao Noboru
 * Mari Nishio - Osawa Maiko
 * Goro Noguchi - Saotome Jin
 * Raita Ryu - Nonomura Koutarou
 * Shigeru Izumiya -Tsubosaka Kunio

Episode Titles

 * 01: "Phone Call from the Dead Man"
 * 02: "Punishment Table of Ice"
 * 03: "The Wiretapped Murderer"
 * 04: "The Room of Certain Death"
 * 05: "The Man Who Saw the Future"
 * 06: "The Wickedest Bombing-Demon"
 * 07: "Death Curse of the Oil Painting"
 * 08: "Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat"
 * 09: "Future Revenge of the Past"
 * 10: "Your Own Two Eyes"
 * 11: "The Kiss of Death's Flavor"

Production

 * Screenwriter: Nishiogi Yumie
 * Producer: Ueda Hiroki
 * Directors: Tsutsumi Yukihiko, Kaneko Fuminori, Imai Natsuki, Isano Hideki
 * Music: Mitake Akira

Cast

 * Shibata Jun: Nakatani Miki
 * Mayama Tôru: Watabe Atsuro
 * Hideyo Amamoto
 * Inuko Inuyama
 * David Ito
 * Izumi Pinko
 * Kunio Tsubosaka: Shigeru Izumiya
 * Hairi Katagiri
 * Kera
 * Koyuki
 * Katsuyuki Murai
 * Katsuhisa Namase
 * Nanako Ookôchi: Nanako Ôkôchi
 * Kôtarô Nonomura: Raita Ryu
 * Toshiya Sakai
 * Aya Kido Sarina Suzuki
 * Tomorowo Taguchi
 * Masahiro Takaki
 * Akio Kondô Yu Tokui
 * Kenichi Yajima

Production

 * Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
 * Music: Akira Mitake
 * Cinematography: Satoru Karasawa
 * Editing: Soichi Ueno
 * Visual effects supervisor: Fumihiko Sori
 * Visual effects(Renderman): Bernard Edlington