Unsolved Cases

Unsolved Cases (ケイゾク, Keizoku) is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama.

The television series was broadcast in 11 episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999 on TBS Television and JNN affiliate stations. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.

Television

Cast

Miki Nakatani - Shibata Jun
Atsuro Watabe - Mayama Tôru
Sarina Suzuki - Kido Aya
Yu Tokui - Kondo Akio
Hidekazu Nagae - Taniguchi Tsuyoshi
Kenichi Yajima - Hayashida Seiichi
Masashi Arifuku - Nagao Noboru
Mari Nishio - Osawa Maiko
Goro Noguchi - Saotome Jin
Raita Ryu - Nonomura Koutarou
Shigeru Izumiya -Tsubosaka Kunio

Episode Titles

01: "Phone Call from the Dead Man"
02: "Punishment Table of Ice"
03: "The Wiretapped Murderer"
04: "The Room of Certain Death"
05: "The Man Who Saw the Future"
06: "The Wickedest Bombing-Demon"
07: "Death Curse of the Oil Painting"
08: "Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat"
09: "Future Revenge of the Past"
10: "Your Own Two Eyes"
11: "The Kiss of Death's Flavor"

Production

Screenwriter: Nishiogi Yumie
Producer: Ueda Hiroki
Directors: Tsutsumi Yukihiko, Kaneko Fuminori, Imai Natsuki, Isano Hideki
Music: Mitake Akira

Film (2000)

Cast

Production

Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Music: Akira Mitake
Cinematography: Satoru Karasawa
Editing: Soichi Ueno
Visual effects supervisor: Fumihiko Sori
Visual effects(Renderman): Bernard Edlington

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
9th TV Life Annual Drama Awards	Best Series	Unsolved Cases	Won

References

↑ "Unsolved Cases ケイゾク 케이조크(계속) 繼續".
1 2 "Keizoku". TV Drama Database. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
↑ Tanaka, Takanobu (8 October 2012). "「ケイゾク」…新時代開いた刑事もの". Yomiuri Shinbun. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
↑ TV Life年間ドラマ大賞受賞リスト覧. TV Life (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 September 2026.

External links

Unsolved Cases at IMDb
Keizoku English page at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)

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[1] "Unsolved Cases ケイゾク 케이조크(계속) 繼續".

[TVDD-2] 1 2 "Keizoku". TV Drama Database. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

[Yomiuri-3] Tanaka, Takanobu (8 October 2012). "「ケイゾク」…新時代開いた刑事もの". Yomiuri Shinbun. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

[4] TV Life年間ドラマ大賞受賞リスト覧. TV Life (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 September 2026.