The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979, Japanese. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Nobuhiko ObayashiDirector
- Ikko FuruyaKosuke Kindaichi
- Kunie TanakaLt. Todoroki
- Miyuki MatsudaMaria
- Hideko YoshidaFumie Akechi
- Chiyonosuke AzumaAkechi Kojuro
- Rinichi YamamotoYukichi Mori
- Jiro SakagamiGoemon Ishida
- Noboru NakayaKazuya Furugaki
- Miyoko AkazaTakako Fujii
- Daigo KusanoTakagi
- Fumi DanTrain Passenger Solving a Puzzle
- Shin KishidaDracula in the City
Details
- Released
- 14 July 1979
- Original title
- 金田一耕助の冒険
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kōichi Saitō, Akira Nakano
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi runs 113 minutes (1h 53m).
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 14 July 1979. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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If you liked The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi, try The Cheap Detective, The Thin Man Goes Home, Shadow of the Thin Man.
Who directed The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi?
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) was directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi and stars Ikko Furuya, Kunie Tanaka, Miyuki Matsuda.