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 eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. 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.
WriterYumie Nishiogi
Phone Call From The Dead Man
Jan 8, 1999
Shibata starts her first day of work at the MPD. She is assigned to the cold case section. Her first case is to figure out how a dead salesman has come back to life.
Punishment Table Of Ice
Jan 15, 1999
Shibata and her partner Mayama are assigned a literal cold case at a refrigerated warehouse. Mayama continues stalk the man who killed his sister.
The Wiretapped Murderer
Jan 22, 1999
Shibata goes on her first stakeout to solve the murder of a philandering husband. Detective Kondo deals with a mystery of his own.
The Room Of Certain Death
Jan 29, 1999
Shibata and the cold case squad investigate a series of murders at a cursed inn. Mayama is hassled by a reporter about his stalking of Asakura, the man he believes killed his sister.
The Man Who Saw The Future
Feb 5, 1999
Shibata sets out to prove a psychic is a fake. Asakura decides to go on the offensive against Mayama.
The Wickedest Bombing-Demon
Feb 12, 1999
Chief Detective Kunio asks the cold case unit for help to solve a 15 year old school bombing before he retires.
Death Curse Of The Oil Painting
Feb 19, 1999
While Shibata investigates a haunted painting, the case takes a shocking turn. Asakura begins to stalk Shibata.
Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat
Feb 26, 1999
After a party, Shibata wakes up next to a murdered man. On the run with her friend Maiko, she tries to prove her innocence.
Future Revenge Of The Past
Mar 5, 1999
Shibata sets out to prove that Asakura was behind the death of Mayama's sister. The MPD believes Mayama has gone rogue and decides to take action.
Your Own Two Eyes
Mar 12, 1999
Mayama is on the run from the MPD Sweeper Unit. The Asakura case takes a dramatic turn, and the cold case unit will never be the same.
The Kiss Of Death's Flavor
Mar 19, 1999
The Sweepers continue to pursue the surviving members of the cold case section. Asakura enacts his final plan to destroy Shibata and Mayama.
