TV series
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.
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Keizoku: Unsolved Cases premiered January 8, 1999. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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.
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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Yukihiko TsutsumiGuest stars Kumiko Akiyoshi, Yoichi Nukumizu, Hiroshi Okochi, Toshifumi Muramatsu
Episode 2
Shibata and her partner Mayama are assigned a literal cold case at a refrigerated warehouse. Mayama continues stalk the man who killed his sister.
Directed by Yukihiko TsutsumiGuest stars Ken Mitsuishi, Kinzō Sakura, Denden
Episode 3
Shibata goes on her first stakeout to solve the murder of a philandering husband. Detective Kondo deals with a mystery of his own.
Directed by Fuminori KanekoGuest stars Miyuki Matsuda, Makiya Yamaguchi
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Yukihiko TsutsumiGuest stars Daijiro Kawaoka, Gin Pun Chou, Shôko Ikeda, Takashi Tsumura, Yoko Ohshima
Episode 5
Shibata sets out to prove a psychic is a fake. Asakura decides to go on the offensive against Mayama.
Directed by Hideki Isano
Episode 6
Chief Detective Kunio asks the cold case unit for help to solve a 15 year old school bombing before he retires.
Directed by Hideki Isano
Episode 7
While Shibata investigates a haunted painting, the case takes a shocking turn. Asakura begins to stalk Shibata.
Directed by Fuminori Kaneko
Episode 8
After a party, Shibata wakes up next to a murdered man. On the run with her friend Maiko, she tries to prove her innocence.
Directed by Yukihiko TsutsumiWritten by Higashi Shimizu
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Natsuki Imai
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Episode 11
The Sweepers continue to pursue the surviving members of the cold case section. Asakura enacts his final plan to destroy Shibata and Mayama.
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Episode information updated Sep 3, 2026
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