Season 2 poster

Season 2

(1996)

Cast

Masakazu Tamura as 古畑任三郎
Masakazu Tamura

as 古畑任三郎

Masahiko Nishimura as 今泉慎太郎
Masahiko Nishimura

as 今泉慎太郎

Takashi Kobayashi as Otokichi Mukojima
Takashi Kobayashi

as Otokichi Mukojima

Episodes

The Man Who Talks Too Much poster

The Man Who Talks Too Much 9.0

January 10, 1996

A successful lawyer kills his mistress and frames Shintaro Imaizumi for the murder. When the lawyer convinces Shintaro …

The Woman Who Doesn't Smile poster

The Woman Who Doesn't Smile 10.0

January 17, 1996

A hated, strict headmistress of an all-girls priory school murders a liberal teacher beloved by all the students. In or…

Master of the Game poster

Master of the Game 9.0

January 24, 1996

A devious doctor manipulates a mystery writer into staging his own murder to look like a suicide. The doctor is surpris…

Red or Blue poster

Red or Blue 9.0

January 31, 1996

Shintaro is trapped on a Ferris wheel with a bomb on board and if the amusement park doesn't pay the bomber until noon,…

Reward for Hypocrisy poster

Reward for Hypocrisy 9.0

February 7, 1996

Furuhata's favorite screenwriter murders her domineering sister with an unknown murder weapon. In order to find the wea…

Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King poster

Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King 10.0

February 14, 1996

While competing on a TV game show, Furuhata investigates the murder of a costumer found dead in a locked room. He begin…

Appraisal: Murder poster

Appraisal: Murder 9.0

February 21, 1996

A scheming antique dealer murders an old potter who was blackmailing him but his accomplice's thoughtless actions jeopa…

Magician's Choice poster

Magician's Choice 10.0

February 28, 1996

A highly respected magician falls in love with his much younger assistant and murders her boyfriend in front of a capti…

The Wrong Man poster

The Wrong Man 10.0

March 6, 1996

A magazine editor concocts and executes the perfect murder in the snowy hills around Tokyo only to then encounter an ac…

What Happened in New York poster

What Happened in New York 10.0

March 13, 1996

During a long bus trip to New York, a Japanese woman sitting next to Furuhata challenges him to a game. She will tell h…