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遠山の金さん捕物帳

遠山の金さん捕物帳 poster
Genre
Jidaigeki
Country
Japan

How it feels

This is a black-and-white Japanese TV series from 1960. It follows a young man named Kinkichiro Toyama before he becomes a magistrate in Edo. Each episode shows him investigating and solving crimes in 30 minutes.

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What happens

『遠山の金さん捕物帳』(とおやまのきんさん とりものちょう)は、1960年10月4日から1960年12月27日にフジテレビ系列にて毎週火曜18時15分から18時45分まで放映された夏目俊二主演による30分物の連続テレビ時代劇。全12話。『遠山の金さん』こと遠山金四郎が江戸町奉行になる前の青年時代を描いた作品。任天堂の一社提供。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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