Kosuke Kindaichi Collection

Number of Movies: 13

Overview

A series of films about private detective Kosuke Kindaichi solving murder cases. Starring Koji Ishizaka in the titular role, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Featured Cast

Ken Takakura

Kosuke Kindaichi

Toru Ono

Kazuo Endo

Shigemi Kitahara

Shizuko Shiraki

Fumitake Ōmura

Genichiro Nire

Takashi Kanda

Inspector Isokawa

Machiko Yashiro

Sumako Izumi

Kiwako Taichi

Satoko Nire

Rinichi Yamamoto

Kuribayashi

Featured Crew

13 Movies

The Inugami Family

October 16, 1976

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

Lullaby to Kill

April 2, 1977

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

Island of Hell

August 27, 1977

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Queen Bee

February 11, 1978

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.

The 8-Tomb Village

October 26, 1996

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo

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.

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

Ghost Man

October 13, 1954

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

The Vampire Moth

April 11, 1956

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Devil's Nursery Rhyme

November 15, 1961

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

© All Rights Reserved 2025