6.4/1018 votesLoading...#1 - Final Dance
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2006
Kyoko Kagami is a pen name for a pair of twin writers. After one sister kills the other, their technical advisor Furuhata investigates. His investigation is complicated by his feelings for the surviving sister.
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6.5/1019 votesLoading...#2 - The Laughing Corpse
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1994
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 bin make the wily inspector suspicious.
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6.5/1019 votesLoading...#3 - Master of the Game
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1996
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.
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6.5/1019 votesLoading...#4 - The Murder in a Small Village
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1999
Furuhata catches a cold and stops in a small village to recover with his colleagues, getting caught up in the entire community's attempt to cover up a murder.
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6.6/1018 votesLoading...#5 - Appraisal: Murder
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1996
A scheming antique dealer murders an old potter who was blackmailing him but his accomplice's thoughtless actions jeopardize his plan.
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6.6/1018 votesLoading...#6 - The Housewife Murder
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1999
A presenter of a Go-based TV program kills her manipulative husband who wanted her to remain a housewife forever. The behavior of their cat proves to be a clue to the crime.
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6.7/1018 votesLoading...#7 - Rehearsal for Murder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1994
During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furuhata Ninzaburo investigates.
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6.8/1018 votesLoading...#8 - The Final Greeting
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/1994
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.
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7.3/1019 votesLoading...#9 - The Piano Lesson
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/1994
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.
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7.3/1019 votesLoading...#10 - Furuhata Ninzaburô vs. the Quiz King
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1996
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.
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7.3/1019 votesLoading...#11 - The Conductor Murder
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/1999
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.
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7.4/1017 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
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7.4/1017 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
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7.5/1018 votesLoading...#14 - 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.
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7.5/1018 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
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7.5/1017 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
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7.5/1018 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
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7.7/1019 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
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7.7/1017 votesLoading...#19 - 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.
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7.7/1019 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
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7.7/1019 votesLoading...#21 - 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.
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7.7/1017 votesLoading...#22 - 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?
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8.0/1024 votesLoading...#23 - 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.
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8.0/1017 votesLoading...#24 - 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.
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8.1/1018 votesLoading...#25 - 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.
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The Worst Episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo
Every episode of Furuhata Ninzaburo ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Final Dance" is the worst rated episode of "Furuhata Ninzaburo". It scored 6.4/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/5/2006. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Laughing Corpse".