Toshio Egi

Als Verbrecher das Kind eines reichen Managers entführen wollen, es aber mit dem Sohn des Chauffeurs verwechseln, zahlt der Manager dennoch. Dadurch verliert er sein Hab und Gut und gerät in arge Bedrängnis, während der Entführer noch nicht geschnappt wurde.

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.

Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a poison used by the Ainu tribe for hunting. The next morning, sports photographer Kawase is killed in the same manner. Kawase’s sister, Yuko, hires Taro Banai, the detective with seven faces, to uncover the truth.

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.