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Onihei Hankachō (1989)

Onihei Hankachō poster
Original title
鬼平犯科帳
Genre
Jidaigeki
Country
Japan
Length
9 seasons, 134 episodes
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A hardboiled police chief solves crimes in Edo period Japan. The show follows his investigations and the criminals he pursues.

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What happens

Onihei Hankachō (鬼平犯科帳) is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast from 1989 to 2016. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title. Kichiemon Nakamura plays Heizō Hasegawa. Kichiemon Nakamura`s father Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII also played same role in 1969. In 1995 the drama made into a movie.(Onihei's Detective Records directed by Yoshiki Onoda.) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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