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The Best Episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo

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The Best Episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo

Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by...

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  1. Background image for Message from the Dead
    8.6/10(32 votes)

    #1 - Message from the Dead

    S1:E1

    On a dark and stormy night, Chinami kills her business partner in her remote manor house in the hills. Then the doorbell rings. As luck would have it, it's none other than Inspector Furuhata seeking refuge from the rain.

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    Director:Koki Mitani
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Man Who Talks Too Much
    8.6/10(30 votes)

    #2 - The Man Who Talks Too Much

    S2:E1

    A successful lawyer kills his mistress and frames Shintaro Imaizumi for the murder. When the lawyer convinces Shintaro to plead guilty, Furuhata becomes suspicious.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Rakugo Murder
    8.6/10(30 votes)

    #3 - The Rakugo Murder

    S3:E1

    A rakugo comedian kills a fellow student and makes it look like a suicide by faking two alibis. Both take each other's places at different points of the day, leaving a complicated mystery for Furuhata to solve.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Resurrection of Death
    8.6/10(29 votes)

    #4 - The Resurrection of Death

    S4:E1

    Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, but loses faith in his instincts when the suspect is himself killed. However, in the end, he ends up solving three murders and catching the real suspect.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for What Happened in New York
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #5 - What Happened in New York

    S2:E10

    During a long bus trip to New York, a Japanese woman sitting next to Furuhata challenges him to a game. She will tell him about the perfect murder she committed and see if he is able to figure out how she got away.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 1
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #6 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 1

    S3:E10

    A shady group kills a young man but fails to recover the bag he stole. To get it back from a subway lost and found, they hack into its control room and stage a train hijacking. Furuhata happens to be on the scene, but the plot proves too complex for him to unravel in one episode.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Contradictory Corpse
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #7 - The Contradictory Corpse

    S1:E10

    A politician's secretary murders his boss and the boss' mistress staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide. However, one of his victims survives and is taken to the hospital for recovery.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Moving Corpse
    8.1/10(18 votes)

    #8 - The Moving Corpse

    S1:E2

    After killing a woman in a hit and run, a famous Kabuki actor decides to kill the only witness, a theatre security guard, and stage it to look like an accidental fall. Only Furuhata Ninazburo is not convinced.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Killing Fax
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #9 - The Killing Fax

    S1:E4

    An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked with delivering the money by the fax-using kidnapper. However, a grammatical question niggles at Furuhata.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Woman Who Doesn't Smile
    8.1/10(18 votes)

    #10 - The Woman Who Doesn't Smile

    S2:E2

    A hated, strict headmistress of an all-girls priory school murders a liberal teacher beloved by all the students. In order to catch her, Furuhata will have to play by her rules.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Hotel Murder
    8.1/10(18 votes)

    #11 - The Hotel Murder

    S3:E2

    A perpetually busy media director murders a politician in his hotel room while engaging in a phone call he would later use as his alibi. His meticulously planned schedule soon meets an obstacle in Furuhata Ninzaburo.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Dentist Murder
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #12 - The Dentist Murder

    S3:E4

    A dentist murders her ex-boyfriend and attempts to use Furuhata as his alibi, tricking him and another witness into thinking she was cleaning his teeth at the time of the crime.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Red or Blue
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    #13 - Red or Blue

    S2:E4

    Shintaro is trapped on a Ferris wheel with a bomb on board and if the amusement park doesn't pay the bomber until noon, it will go off. His only other hope is a young explosives expert whom Furuhata suspects is the bomber.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for A Fair Murder
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #14 - A Fair Murder

    S4:E2

    Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none other than Furuhata's faithful friend Mukojima.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Sayonara DJ
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #15 - Sayonara DJ

    S1:E11

    Furuhata and Shintaro are assigned to bodyguard a radio DJ who's been receiving threatening messages. However, the DJ turns out to be the killer with a devious plan and a watertight alibi.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 2
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #16 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 2

    S3:E11

    Furuhata leaves the station with the suspect, intent on dropping off the ransom money. How will he prove the culprits true identity, and what is his opponent planning?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Broadcast Murder
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #17 - Broadcast Murder

    S1:E9

    During a live broadcast, a TV psychic desperately in need of validation pretends to find a corpse of a man he himself had killed earlier. The only person in the audience not convinced is Inspector Furuhata.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Wrong Man
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #18 - The Wrong Man

    S2:E9

    A magazine editor concocts and executes the perfect murder in the snowy hills around Tokyo only to then encounter an acquaintance. He kills him too but his streak of bad luck has only just begun.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Airplane Murder
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #19 - The Airplane Murder

    S3:E9

    An archaeologist's affair partner accidentally dies during a fight in an airplane bathroom and flees, desperate to hide his secret from his wife. While covering up the crime, he's forced to masquerade as the co-pilot and avoid the child who witnessed his escape. Imaizumi's witnessing of a gremlin on the wing of the plane becomes a dangerous clue.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Dirty King
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #20 - The Dirty King

    S1:E5

    Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Reward for Hypocrisy
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #21 - Reward for Hypocrisy

    S2:E5

    Furuhata's favorite screenwriter murders her domineering sister with an unknown murder weapon. In order to find the weapon and prove her guilt, Furuhata makes Shintaro become the old woman's servant.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Yoko-chin Anzai Incident
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #22 - The Yoko-chin Anzai Incident

    S3:E5

    Furuhata receives a mysterious invitation to an old friend's house. Beginning to suspect his friend plans to murder his cheating wife, Furuhata realizes this may be his chance to prevent a murder instead of solving one.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Murder Express
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #23 - Murder Express

    S1:E8

    A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private eye. He decides to kill the nosy gumshoe on the train home but unfortunately for him, Furuhata Ninzaburo is on board.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Magician's Choice
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Magician's Choice

    S2:E8

    A highly respected magician falls in love with his much younger assistant and murders her boyfriend in front of a captive audience which just so happens to include Furuhata and Shintaro.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Scientist Murder
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #25 - The Scientist Murder

    S3:E8

    A wheelchair-bound scientist kills his colleague and old friend using a deadly gift and some well-timed phone calls. Saionji quickly suspects the scientist's ex-girlfriend of the crime, but Furuhata remains unconvinced.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Message from the Dead" is the best rated episode of "Furuhata Ninzaburo". It scored 8.6/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Koki Mitani and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/13/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Man Who Talks Too Much".