The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
Original title: 金田一耕助の冒険
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi is a 1979 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, with a running time of 1h 53m. It stars Ikko Furuya, Kunie Tanaka and Miyuki Matsuda.
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Cast
- Ikko Furuya as Kosuke Kindaichi
- Kunie Tanaka as Lt. Todoroki
- Miyuki Matsuda as Maria
- Hideko Yoshida as Fumie Akechi
- Chiyonosuke Azuma as Akechi Kojuro
- Rinichi Yamamoto as Yukichi Mori
- Jiro Sakagami as Goemon Ishida
- Noboru Nakaya as Kazuya Furugaki
- Miyoko Akaza as Takako Fujii
- Daigo Kusano as Takagi
- Fumi Dan as Train Passenger Solving a Puzzle
- Shin Kishida as Dracula in the City