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Type: live action

Genre: crime, police, detective

Year: 2014-Jan-14 to 2014-Mar-25

Introduction:

It’s based on a novel of the same name by Ohkura Takahiro.

Summary:

Assistant Inspector Fukuie solves murder cases despite her supervisor’s, Inspector Ishimatsu, misgivings. As all the glory are shared, he tolerates her eccentricity.

There are some strange secrets about Fukuie’s transfer from 4th division (? crime) to 1st division (murders) which pique the interest of the top brass.

Hence, a conspiracy from within the force is watching her.

Critique:

Imagine a female Inspector Columbo, who’s unorganized and is working independently, hence, generally gets excluded by her colleagues.

The show starts off with heavy guns: Sorimachi Takashi (Onizuka from GTO1978) committing two perfect murders.

Actually, this keeps mounting. It’s a show full of veteran actors playing murderers.

The cases are rather typical yet somehow they kind of come across as disturbing.

There’s a historic lesson at the beginning of each episode.
Although, they are general knowledge each one is actually a riddle of murder. The solution is within each episode.
All in all the appeal of the show is on the actors and the investigations. Everything else isn’t too outstanding enough.

Verdict: 7.7

Cast: 8

Cast performance: 8

Script/Directing: 7