About this season
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.
Episodes (11)
1. Phone Call From The Dead Man
Aired 8 January 1999 • 47 min
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.
2. Punishment Table Of Ice
Aired 15 January 1999 • 48 min
Shibata and her partner Mayama are assigned a literal cold case at a refrigerated warehouse. Mayama continues stalk the man who killed his sister.
3. The Wiretapped Murderer
Aired 22 January 1999 • 48 min
Shibata goes on her first stakeout to solve the murder of a philandering husband. Detective Kondo deals with a mystery of his own.
4. The Room Of Certain Death
Aired 29 January 1999 • 47 min
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.
5. The Man Who Saw The Future
Aired 5 February 1999 • 47 min
Shibata sets out to prove a psychic is a fake. Asakura decides to go on the offensive against Mayama.
6. The Wickedest Bombing-Demon
Aired 12 February 1999 • 48 min
Chief Detective Kunio asks the cold case unit for help to solve a 15 year old school bombing before he retires.
7. Death Curse Of The Oil Painting
Aired 19 February 1999 • 48 min
While Shibata investigates a haunted painting, the case takes a shocking turn. Asakura begins to stalk Shibata.
8. Farewell, Lovely Cutthroat
Aired 26 February 1999 • 48 min
After a party, Shibata wakes up next to a murdered man. On the run with her friend Maiko, she tries to prove her innocence.
9. Future Revenge Of The Past
Aired 5 March 1999 • 47 min
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.
10. Your Own Two Eyes
Aired 12 March 1999 • 47 min
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.
11. The Kiss Of Death's Flavor
Aired 19 March 1999 • 47 min
The Sweepers continue to pursue the surviving members of the cold case section. Asakura enacts his final plan to destroy Shibata and Mayama.