8.5/1030 votesLoading...#1 - Message from the Dead
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/1994
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.
Director: Koki Mitani
Writer: N/A
8.5/1028 votesLoading...#2 - The Man Who Talks Too Much
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1028 votesLoading...#3 - The Rakugo Murder
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/1999
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.
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Writer: N/A
8.5/1027 votesLoading...#4 - The Resurrection of Death
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2006
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/1017 votesLoading...#5 - What Happened in New York
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/1996
During a long bus trip to New York, a Japanese woman sitting next to Furuhata challenges him to a game. She will tell him about the perfect murder she committed and see if he is able to figure out how she got away.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/1017 votesLoading...#6 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1017 votesLoading...#7 - The Contradictory Corpse
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/1994
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1018 votesLoading...#8 - The Moving Corpse
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1994
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1024 votesLoading...#9 - The Killing Fax
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/1994
An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked with delivering the money by the fax-using kidnapper. However, a grammatical question niggles at Furuhata.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1018 votesLoading...#10 - The Woman Who Doesn't Smile
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1018 votesLoading...#11 - The Hotel Murder
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1024 votesLoading...#12 - The Dentist Murder
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1024 votesLoading...#13 - Red or Blue
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1996
Shintaro is trapped on a Ferris wheel with a bomb on board and if the amusement park doesn't pay the bomber until noon, it will go off. His only other hope is a young explosives expert whom Furuhata suspects is the bomber.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1017 votesLoading...#14 - A Fair Murder
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2006
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#15 - Broadcast Murder
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/1994
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1017 votesLoading...#16 - Sayonara DJ
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/1994
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#17 - The Wrong Man
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#18 - The Airplane Murder
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1017 votesLoading...#19 - The Train Hijacking Murder: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1018 votesLoading...#20 - The Dirty King
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1994
Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1018 votesLoading...#21 - Reward for Hypocrisy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1017 votesLoading...#22 - Magician's Choice
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1018 votesLoading...#23 - The Yoko-chin Anzai Incident
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1017 votesLoading...#24 - Murder Express
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/1994
A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private eye. He decides to kill the nosy gumshoe on the train home but unfortunately for him, Furuhata Ninzaburo is on board.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1017 votesLoading...#25 - The Scientist Murder
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo
Every episode of Furuhata Ninzaburo ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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Network:Fuji TV
Best Episodes Summary
"Message from the Dead" is the best rated episode of "Furuhata Ninzaburo". It scored 8.5/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Koki Mitani and written by N/A, it aired on 4/13/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Man Who Talks Too Much".