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Keizoku
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Type: mystery crime drama
Genre: mystery, detective, action
Year: 1999
Synopsis:
Todai graduate Shibata Jun joins the MPD as an elite detective. She is an extreme moronic simpleton, clumsy, naive, and gullible virgin with a super analytical brain and has no sense of direction. She’s the daughter of legendary detective Shibata Jun’ichiro, who solved all crime cases. He usually took case files home and had them solved by morning. In truth, he never looked at them but let his 9 year old daughter read them. She always found them cheap mysteries, though.
On her way to work she often helps people solve their problems. She can solve any university level problem instantly. To help some helpless internet user she fixes his laptop by connecting it directly with the Pentagon’s supercomputer giving him access to unpublicized data. Later, the user(s) became famous world wide, and their faces well known in certain circles.
There are a total of six people in the unit each with certain skills. While solving cases Jun learns about the world, the human heart and its dark side.
Critique:
Nakatani Miki as Shibata Jun can be characterized as a combination of your typical Japanese woman and a naive country girl who knows nothing of the world or people. She’s full of contradictions that borders on ridiculous. She’s extreme on both side of the medal on most anything. She remains on the good side, though. Seriously, can there ever be a person like her?
Watabe Atsuro as fellow detective Mayama Tooru is Jun’s relyable and experienced “knight”. So far it’s the best role I saw him in. He basically pulls her back to reality and reveals the true human nature or motive behind the cases that Jun can’t figure out. He usually does it at the very end when Jun asks the murderer about their motive. He also does some secret investigation throughout the show. The romance part doesn’t appear until near the end. It’s still your old style proper Japanese drama.
Suzuki Sarina as Kido Aya is virtually the big sister in the unit. She’s an elite who got dumped into the unit from General Affairs and mostly works as librarian. She usually teases Jun or tells her simple kid’s lies but often has to come to her rescue.
Famed police actor Ryu Raita plays as Nonomura Kotaro, the unit’s chief. He serves as mediator and provide comic relief stories about his marital troubles. They only appear as intro to each episode, though.
The rest of the cast don’t seem to matter much. Overall the above form a good team with nice relationship. This arrangement is better than the later
Keizoku 2 – SPEC. The mystery cases are ordinary in today’s therms. For example the 3rd story is about a room when entered it is empty one time and full the next time or vice versa. It’s your typical moving wall ninja trick or changing labyrinth trick. But how an ordinary person can pull it of in the time given or creating it in the first place without residents noticing is a greater mystery.
😆 It’s a bit old and may not be appealing for some but I still think it’s a good show in its own right.
Verdict: 8
Cast: 8
Cast performance: 8
Script/Directing: 8
