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The Best Episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo

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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 Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as

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    Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 4 - The Killing Fax
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 6 - The Piano Lesson
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Piano Lesson

    S1:E6

    Furuhata Ninzaburô gets involved in the drama surrounding an elite musical academy when he begins suspecting a fierce piano teacher of murdering the school's headmaster.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 7 - Rehearsal for Murder
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Rehearsal for Murder

    S1:E7

    During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furuhata Ninzaburo investigates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 11 - Sayonara DJ
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 2 - The Woman Who Doesn't Smile
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 6 - Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King

    S2:E6

    While competing on a TV game show, Furuhata investigates the murder of a costumer found dead in a locked room. He begins suspecting that the killer is none other than the undefeated quiz show champion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 8 - Magician's Choice
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 9 - The Wrong Man
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 10 - What Happened in New York
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 3 Episode 4 - The Dentist Murder
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 3 Episode 6 - The Conductor Murder
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Conductor Murder

    S3:E6

    A conductor murders a violist he was having an affair with an seeks to frame her new boyfriend. Strangely, he also kills all of the victim's fish, which Furuhata used to deduce the killer's identity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 3 Episode 9 - The Airplane Murder
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 3 Episode 10 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 1
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 3 Episode 11 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 2
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 2 - The Moving Corpse
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 3 - The Laughing Corpse
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Laughing Corpse

    S1:E3

    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 bin make the wily inspector suspicious.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 5 - The Dirty King
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Dirty King

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 8 - Murder Express
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 9 - Broadcast Murder
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 10 - The Contradictory Corpse
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 1 Episode 12 - The Final Greeting
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Final Greeting

    S1:E12

    What happens when the killer you are hunting is your superior? Furuhata is about to find out after he begins suspecting the legendary Superintendent Kogure of murdering the man who killed his daughter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 1 - The Man Who Talks Too Much
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 3 - Master of the Game
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Master of the Game

    S2:E3

    A devious doctor manipulates a mystery writer into staging his own murder to look like a suicide. The doctor is surprisingly good at all kinds of games (darts, pool, chess etc.) but he is no match for Furuhata when it comes to mind games.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 4 - Red or Blue
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Furuhata Ninzaburo Season 2 Episode 5 - Reward for Hypocrisy
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Killing Fax" is the best rated episode of "Furuhata Ninzaburo". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/4/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Piano Lesson".