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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories (2015)

★ 10.0/10 97 min Crime, Mystery Japan Japanese
Novel: Shotaro Ishinomori
Screenplay by: Toshio Terada
Streaming: Not available

Description

Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.

Top Cast

Teppei Koike
Teppei Koike Sabu
Kenichi Endo
Kenichi Endo Ichi
Kōtarō Satomi
Kōtarō Satomi
Takashi Naito
Takashi Naito Policeman Saheiji
Rina Uchiyama
Rina Uchiyama
Yumiko Fujita
Yumiko Fujita
Mayuko Fukuda
Mayuko Fukuda
Masami Horiuchi
Masami Horiuchi

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