Season 1
(1994)
Cast
as 古畑任三郎
as 今泉慎太郎
Episodes
Message from the Dead 8.3
April 13, 1994
On a dark and stormy night, Chinami kills her business partner in her remote manor house in the hills. Then the doorbel…
The Moving Corpse 9.0
April 20, 1994
After killing a woman in a hit and run, a famous Kabuki actor decides to kill the only witness, a theatre security guar…
The Laughing Corpse 9.0
April 27, 1994
Furuhata is called to a scene where a woman has just killed a burglar but a chicken in the oven and a cigarette in the …
The Killing Fax 10.0
May 4, 1994
An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked…
The Dirty King 9.0
May 11, 1994
Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.
The Piano Lesson 10.0
May 18, 1994
Furuhata Ninzaburô gets involved in the drama surrounding an elite musical academy when he begins suspecting a fierce p…
Rehearsal for Murder 10.0
May 25, 1994
During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Fur…
Murder Express 9.0
June 1, 1994
A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private…
Broadcast Murder 9.0
June 8, 1994
During a live broadcast, a TV psychic desperately in need of validation pretends to find a corpse of a man he himself h…
The Contradictory Corpse 9.0
June 15, 1994
A politician's secretary murders his boss and the boss' mistress staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide. Howev…
Sayonara DJ 10.0
June 22, 1994
Furuhata and Shintaro are assigned to bodyguard a radio DJ who's been receiving threatening messages. However, the DJ t…
The Final Greeting 9.0
June 29, 1994
What happens when the killer you are hunting is your superior? Furuhata is about to find out after he begins suspecting…