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Furuhata Ninzaburo

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Furuhata Ninzaburo	comment	Furuhata Ninzaburo is a beloved Japanese Mystery of the Week series starring Masakazu Tamura as the titular police inspector who is a kind of Spiritual Successor to Columbo. Furuhata similarly uses his absent-mindedness, overt friendliness, humbleness, and over-the-top politeness to get close to and unnerve his suspects. Unlike Columbo, however, Furuhata is a neat dresser and is not afraid of dropping his mask and openly confronting the murderer when required. His tactics of Perp Sweating are also much more ruthless and occasionally border on Psychological Cold-Blooded Torture.Every episode of the series and both of the spin-offs were written by Japanese playwright Koki Mitani who is best known as the founder of the Tokyo Sunshine Boys, a theatre troupe whose members frequently appeared on the show in minor roles.Another difference between the two shows is that Furuhata does not work alone. He is assisted by his dimwitted partner (or more accurately an unwanted hanger-on) Shintaro Imaizumi. In the second season, they are joined by the Hyper-Competent Sidekick Haga who is then replaced for the final two seasons by the Suspiciously Similar Substitute Mamoru Saionji. Another regular is Officer Mukojima, a uniformed police officer whose name Furuhata can never remember.Just like the US show, Furuhata Ninzaburo is a Reverse Whodunnit (better known as the "open mystery"): For as much as the first third of each episode (or in one extreme case, the first hour of the episode), the audience sees the motive set up and then actually watches as each guest villain tries to execute the perfect murder. Furuhata and his partner(s) then appear in the second act... And (with very rare exceptions) the audience is left wondering not "whodunnit" but "how is he going to catch them".One major innovation over Columbo is that twice Furuhata Ninzaburo featured real-life celebrities as the killers. Boy band SMAP and baseball player Ichiro Suzuki.Furuhata’s mannerisms include distinctive hand gestures and a stooped posture which is meant to be a display of fake submissiveness. He shares a particular verbal tic with Columbo – the use of the legendary phrase “just one more thing” which occurs almost Once per Episode. He is a snappy dresser who almost always wears black and has perfectly quaffed shoulder-length hair. He also addresses the audience twice an episode. Once at the beginning giving a brief prologue and once at the end of the second act where he sums up the clues so far and issues a challenge to the viewer inspired by Ellery Queen.The series aired between 1994 and 2006 and produced four seasons and 42 episodes (thirty-two 45-minute episodes and 10 feature-length ones). There are also two spin-offs: Shintaro Imaizumi, a 1996 series of 10-minute sketches focusing on the comedic antics of Furuhata’s bumbling sidekick when he’s off work and a 2008 Made-for-TV Movie Junior High School Student Furuhata which focused on Furuhata Ninzaburo’s childhood as a Kid Detective.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: "Message from the Dead" replicates, in part, the one from the Series/Columbo episode "Try and Catch Me".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Masaaki Sakai, a well-known kabuki actor plays a well-known kabuki actor in "The Moving Corpse". Shingo Yamashiro, a controversial, womanizing magician/actor plays a controversial, womanizing magician in "Magician’s Choice". Takeshi Kaga plays the same role in "Murder Express" as he played in a highly popular medical drama called "He Is Always There". Both were written by Koki Mitani. J-Pop boy band SMAP appear as themselves in "Furuhata Ninzaburo Vs. SMAP". Baseball player Ichiro Suzuki appears As Himself in "A Fair Murderer".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Gloriously Averted in "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. SMAP" and "A Fair Murderer" where the Villain of the Week appears As Himself.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: The killer does this unsuccessfully in "The Contradictory Corpse". Furuhata easily proves the victim couldn’t have called him by the simple use of the redial button. The killer in "Final Dance" does it successfully, however, by stealing the victim’s mobile phone and then returning it upon discovering the body.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Lestrade: Saionji and Haga are competent policemen but lack Furuhata’s Hyper-Awareness.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Averted in several episodes, most prominently in "The Woman Who Never Smiled" in which the titular killer bludgeons her victim to death as blood spurts all over her face in close-up.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Almost every episode begins with a meticulous sequence showing the killer executing his plan. In "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. SMAP" this lasts for 56 minutes.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: The murderous katana-wielding village elder in "The Murder in a Small Village". The villagers have a fanatical respect for him and even Furuhata grows to like him.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Which wire do we cut? Red or blue?" Furuhata keeps trying to figure out how to pull off a trick called Magician’s Choice. "This is a programme about the mysterious disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo." "I think His Excellency did it." "I would like the honour of thefinal dance." Pretty close in "The Laughing Kangaroo". Hikaru says: "They say that when you're unlucky in love, the kangaroos laugh at you".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: With only a few exceptions, all the killers gracefully confess once Furuhata presents them with his evidence.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Quite a few of the killers over the years. The bomber in Red or Blue is easily the number one example. Not only does he not care about killing large amounts of people (including many children), he does it for a completely banal reason. Furuhata is so shocked by his callousness that he slaps him. Dr Kenichiro from Master of the Game also counts. Furuhata gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech at the end for treating his crimes like fun games. The Professional Killer from The Most Dangerous Game who works with the eco-terrorists. While the rest of the group care for the environment, he is only in it for the cash and doesn’t care who he has to kill to get it. Tenma in "The Resurrection of Death" who manipulates his favourite student to kill his brother. He then kills the student and all of that in order to cover up the fact that he killed their father more than a decade ago. None of this murdering disturbs him in the slightest and he easily keeps up his jovial facade.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Shintaro’s grandmother. Mukojima’s wife. Furuhata’s brother. Chinami becomes this. She is mentioned very frequently but never appears after "Message from the Dead" except for a brief cameo in the Clip Show episode.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The character of Furuhata is occasionally portrayed in a more comical light. In several episodes, he is portrayed as The Klutz, something that he would never be in the later seasons.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1d976ece	type	Inconsistent Episode Lengths
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_1d976ece	comment	Inconsistent Episode Lengths: Most of the episodes are 45 minutes long but some of the episodes have an extended runtime and can run anywhere from 75 minutes to a whopping 135.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_213dc284	comment	The bomber in "Red or Blue" is an electronics student who gets coincidentally pressed into replacing an injured bomb investigator. Unlike the previous examples, this wasn't part of his plan and actually interferes with it, since being in investigation headquarters keeps him from making further threatening phone calls as he'd promised he would, putting Furuhata on is trail.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_23a332fa	type	Italians Talk with Hands
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_23a332fa	comment	Italians Talk with Hands: Furuhata is Japanese but he definitely talks with his hands.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: At least Once per Episode.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: None of the English dialogue in "The Laughing Kangaroo" or "What Happened in New York" is subtitled.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Besides wearing different coloured shirts in season one, Furuhata’s costume never changes.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2b78c29d	type	And Another Thing...
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2b78c29d	comment	And Another Thing...: In a direct quote from Columbo, Furuhata says the phrase at least Once per Episode.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: To an extreme and literal degree in "The Contradictory Corpse".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Furuhata is an excellent cook although only of a single meal as can be seen in "The Laughing Corpse". Shintaro Imaizumi is a very good Go player as can be seen in "The Dirty King". Subverted in "Sayonara DJ" where it is conclusively proven that Furuhata cannot sing. In "The Master of Games", Furuhata proves he is pretty good at pool. In "Goodbye for a While", we learn that Shintaro goes to flower arranging classes. He is terrible at it. In "The Young Master’s Crime" it is revealed that forensics technician Kuwabara is a good rakugo performer. Shintaro loves to play his clarinet and demonstrates his talent in "The Perfect Pitch Murder". It turns out he has none. Mukojima is shown to be a terrific baseball player in "A Fair Murderer".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2e6b9e45	type	Concert Film
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2e6b9e45	comment	In a minor example, parts of "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. SMAP" are a straight Concert Film probably due to Padding.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: In "This Man Is Too Busy", while Shintaro is dressed as a woman making out with Saionji in an office they are seen by the pair of lovers they are impersonating. The lovers are shocked and leave before the detectives can explain themselves.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_335ac42e	type	Out of Order
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_335ac42e	comment	Out of Order: The first three seasons suffer extremely badly from this. Here are a few examples: Furuhata and Shintaro first meet in the second episode "The Moving Corpse" even though they worked together in the previous episode. Furuhata and Shintaro are on a business trip in episode five of the first season. Episode seven shows their return trip to Tokyo even though they were back in episode six. Season three suffers the worst of all. For example, the first 10 minutes of "The Terror of Dr Kuroiwa" are an elaborate introduction of Saionji even though he appeared in the previous episode. An even more egregious example is that Furuhata, Saionji and Shintaro are shown in episode four to be returning from a trip. But they don’t actually go on the trip until episode six!
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Eventually all of the culprits' plots turn out to be this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Furuhata is fond of these. In "The Killing Fax" he dresses Shintaro in all white knowing that the killer won’t be there to see him. When the killer claims falsely that he did see Shintaro, Furuhata asks him what he was wearing. A ridiculously dangerous one in "Red or Blue" in which the Villain of the Week places a bomb in a crowded theme park. After arresting the terrorist, Furuhata asks him which line to cut in order to deactivate the bomb. The killer says red. Furuhata instructs Shintaro to cut the blue. Furuhata is right. The entirety of the second part of "The Most Dangerous Game" is this as Furuhata calls the bluff of a terrorist group masquerading as cops and accompanies them, completely alone, to an imaginary drop-off point where they are supposedly meeting themselves.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The Villain of the Week in "Rehearsal for Murder" notes that Furuhata Ninzaburo could star in historical movies. Tamura Masakazu made his name starring in historical movies. One of the guest stars in "The Resurrection of Death" is Koji Ishizaka who is best known for playing Kosuke Kindaichi, one of Japan’s most famous detectives and a big influence on Furuhata Ninzaburo. In a very rare twist of this kind on the show, he turns out to be the true Big Bad of the episode. Furuhata refers to him as the most ingenious killer he’s ever met and shows him a surprising amount of reverence and respect..
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: The killer in "Red or Blue" is a young man who decides to place a bomb on a Ferris wheel because it blocks the view of the sea from his apartment. Otoya from "The Resurrection of Death" also qualifies. He kills his older brother for being overbearing using a plan for a perfect murder he wrote when he was in fifth grade.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Very, very often.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_41be2c1b	comment	"The Terror of Dr Kuroiwa" is a whodunnit for the first third until we find out that the medical examiner, Dr Kuroiwa, is faking the serial murders. Sadly, this is very much a case of a Spoiler Title.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Uno Tadakuni in "The Contradictory Corpse" who tries to pay off his much, much younger mistress not to reveal their affair. When she refuses, he has his assistant kill her. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Takechi Mayuzumi in "His Excellency Did It" is a surprisingly likeable example of this trope.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Furuhata himself refers to Tenma from "The Resurrection of Death" as this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Imaizumi is often teased and insulted by Furuhata. In one episode, Furuhata even shoves an entire pork bun in his own mouth at once rather than give the starving Imaizumi a bite!
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_48e453d0	type	Episode on a Plane
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_48e453d0	comment	Episode on a Plane: "Death in the Clouds".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: In "Murder Express", Furuhata makes the killer help him re-enact the murder making him reveal something only the killer would know. Again in "The Dentist Murder", Furuhata once again walks the culprit through a re-enactment, this time of the culprit's disguise. He catches the culprit when she selects a fake mustache. When Furuhata asks her why she did that, she responds that the culprit was disguised as a man, something Furuhata never told her.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4bdbca25	type	Irregular Series
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4bdbca25	comment	Irregular Series: Four seasons across 12 years.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: Tamura Masakazu is always this. From season three onwards, so are the guest stars.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Once the extremely likeable Chinako gets caught in "Message from the Dead", she asks Furuhata if she can go have a cry for a few minutes before he arrests her. Furuhata agrees. "Final Dance" is a bonafide Tear Jerker. It turns out that Furuhata’s love interest has been murdered by her twin sister. Furuhata confronts the sister and finds her to be a depressed, lonely woman who simply longed to be like her extroverted, outgoing sister. The episode ends with them dancing in an empty club where Furuhata and the victim went the night before she was killed. "Junior High School Student Furuhata" ends with Furuhata moving away and his best friend Mukojima waving to him as he leaves and saying he hopes they meet again.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Remarkably, the show stayed very consistent throughout the episodes. However, there are a few examples of this in season one. Most obviously, the fact that Furuhata wears a different coloured shirt every episode. In later seasons, he would only wear black shirts. There is a Running Gag in which Furuhata keeps running into broken vending machines. Furuhata arrives by car rather than by his trademark bicycle he would begin using in the second season. The character of Furuhata is occasionally portrayed in a more comical light. In several episodes, he is portrayed as The Klutz, something that he would never be in the later seasons. The first season also has several examples of the Bottle Episode in which the only characters are Furuhata, Shintaro, the killer, and the victim.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Some of the killers, though nowhere near as much as in Series/Columbo.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4ff0627a	type	Suspect Existence Failure
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_4ff0627a	comment	Suspect Existence Failure: Otoya Horibe is killed in what appears to be an accident in "The Resurrection of Death". It wasn’t an accident and the episode from there plays out as a Fair-Play Whodunnit.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Mostly true, but Subverted a few times. "The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo" has no murder. The mystery revolves around the titular disappearance but despite Shintaro's theories, Furuhata is not dead. Shintaro accidentally locked him in Chinami's basement. A very interesting example in "The Terror of Dr Kuroiwa". All the serial murders are fake. The medical examiner, Kuroiwa, planted the evidence to make the police think they are real. However, he does commit an actual murder later on. The supposed murder Toru is planning in "The Reunion" is actually a suicide. He wants to make it look like murder and frame his wife for it. Furuhata eventually talks him down and there are no deaths in this episode. There is no murder in "Death in the Clouds", just an accidental death during turbulence in the toilet of an aeroplane which the woman's inept lover tries to cover up so his wife wouldn't find out about the affair. His cover-up is so bad that everyone on board the plane thinks it's actually a murder.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Pretty much all of the killers are this. The most explicit examples include: Chinami Koishikawa in "Message from the Dead" is the mother of all examples. Not only do Furuhata and her develop a friendship that borders on romance during the episode, but he also continues mentioning and visiting her all the way throughout the series. He travels to America to attend her wedding and even brings her up in his final monologue in the very last episode. Furuhata definitely feels sorry for Hikaru Noda in "The Laughing Kangaroo". He has a similar relationship with Sakura Odajima in "The Sad Perfect Crime". Noriko Kendall in "What Happened in New York" definitely qualifies as she is one of the few killers Furuhata lets go. Toru Anzai in "The Reunion" is a very unusual example. He is an old friend of Furuhata’s but acts rather coldly towards him. This all turns out to be part of a very elaborate suicide plot. The episode ends with Furuhata and him playing a childhood game while laughing. Momiji in "Final Dance" ends the episode dancing with Furuhata. Nonoyama in "Junior High School Student Furuhata" is very charming and nice when he’s not trying to kill 13-year-olds.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_586949a8	type	Genius Slob
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_586949a8	comment	Genius Slob: The victim in "The Laughing Kangaroo" is an extreme example of this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Most killers are quite friendly to Furuhata. Played Straight in the case of Chinami in "Message from the Dead" who becomes a true friend of Furuhata’s and even invites him to her wedding in New York.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5c219298	comment	"Broadcast Murder" is a borderline case. The murder occurs in the heat of the moment when the victim catches the killer, a Phony Psychic, setting up a trick.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Several of the authority figures do this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_60665480	type	Clock King
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_60665480	comment	Clock King: The murderer in "The Killing Fax" fakes a kidnapping and plans the entire night’s events, down to the movements of the detectives investigating the case, down to the last second. He spends the entire episode running around with a stopwatch in his hand.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Several times. Most spectacularly in "The Wrong Man" in which a man commits the perfect murder and gets clean away with it to the point that Furuhata doesn’t find out it even happened until the very last minute of the episode. However, he gets caught for getting nervous and murdering an acquaintance who just happens to see him in the vicinity of the crime scene.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_62907b90	comment	The first season also has several examples of the Bottle Episode in which the only characters are Furuhata, Shintaro, the killer, and the victim.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_63499260	comment	"The Reunion" in which we follow the Villain of the Week go through his plan in the presence of Furuhata throughout the entire episode.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_63b34edb	type	Thriller on the Express
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_63b34edb	comment	Thriller on the Express: "Murder Express".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: The final season has only three episodes.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Happens in "The Moving Corpse" and "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. The Quiz King".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_6b92d74d	type	Correction Bait
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_6b92d74d	comment	Correction Bait: In-Universe example: in "Murder Express", this is how Furuhata tricks the killer into revealing themselves.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_704a3bbb	type	Real Men Cook
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_704a3bbb	comment	Real Men Cook: Furuhata is a pretty good cook.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: "Death in the Clouds" is Idiot Ball : The Movie as the inept Villain of the Week keeps getting himself deeper and deeper into trouble for no reason at all.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Otoya Horibe in "The Resurrection of Death".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: "Red or Blue" and "The Most Dangerous Game" are terrorist action thrillers. "The Wrong Man" and "Death in the Clouds" are out-and-out comedies. "The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo" is a comedic Mockumentary Clip Show that has no murders. In a minor example, parts of "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. SMAP" are a straight Concert Film probably due to Padding.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_75ee1020	type	FakeGunshot
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_75ee1020	comment	Fake Gunshot: The murderer in "Final Dance" uses a firecracker to create her alibi.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Shintaro has very little screen time in the fourth season and is shown as having become a fairly bitter and mean person taking snipes even at Furuhata whom he once idolized.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: This is Furuhata’s speciality. Most episodes end with Furuhata wearing the killer down with a series of these until they confess.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Kusaka from "The Most Dangerous Game" is probably the only killer not to go quietly. He kidnaps a nurse at knife-point in order to escape.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_7d89315b	comment	Dr Kenichiro from Master of the Game also counts. Furuhata gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech at the end for treating his crimes like fun games.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8015df5d	type	Reverse Whodunnit
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Most of the killers are at least likeable and most of the victims are Asshole Victim. The best examples include: Chinami in "Message from the Dead" is the most obvious example. Furuhata likes her so much they become good friends after the episode. The wise and cool Jushiro Omiya in "Rehearsal for Murder". Hikaru Noda in "The Laughing Kangaroo". Subverted in that she’s not actually the killer, she only thinks she is. Noriko Kendall in "What Happened in New York" who ruined her own life by killing her cheating husband is at least pitiable. The SMAP members from "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP" who kill a particularly nasty man who was blackmailing one of the members in a one for all, all for one plot. Despite using Furuhata as an alibi, Haruko Kanamori from "Furuhata Goes to the Dentist" qualifies for being a generally kind, sweet, and bubbly dentist. Toru Anzai from "The Reunion" though this one is a major case of Rewatch Bonus. Sakura Odajima from "The Sad Perfect Murder". She is an abused wife who kills her awful husband. You really want her to get away with it. Tai Shuzo in "Death in the Clouds" is sympathetic simply for being a completely inept criminal and a henpecked husband. Ichiro Suzuki, the titular "Fair Murderer" who kills his brother’s blackmailer and then leaves clues that lead Furuhata directly to him. It also helps that his brother is none other than Officer Mukojima himself. Momiji from "Final Dance" even though she kills probably the most likeable victim of the entire show, Furuhata’s love interest. She qualifies on the pitiable scale as she’s clearly a very depressed and deeply disturbed individual and not evil. A very entertaining subversion occurs in "Reward for Hypocrisy" when the killer is Furuhata’s favourite TV writer. At first, she seems like a charming and erudite old lady but, by the end, everyone’s sick of her overbearing, manipulative nature.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Furuhata frequently uses this method to catch his killers. Involving pianos in "The Piano Lesson". Furuhata keeps pulling a particularly brutal one in "The Contradictory Corpse". The victim survives the attempted murder and Furuhata and the killer wait in the hospital for him to wake from his coma. Several times in the episode, Furuhata makes the killer believe the victim has awoken only to then reveal that he is talking about Shintaro who is also in the same hospital undergoing a haemorrhoid surgery. The killer gets so stressed out he almost has a stroke. Furuhata does this with audio tapes in "Sayonara DJ". He makes the killer in "The Laughing Kangaroo" reveal knowledge only the killer could know by making him think they are standing in his hotel room when, in fact, they’re on an entirely different floor. The killer does this in "The Magician’s Choice" using the titular trick. This trick is pulled in "The Reunion" on the audience. Throughout the episode, we are made to think that Toru is trying to kill his wife. He is actually trying to commit suicide and make it look like his wife has killed him. In "The Resurrection of Death" we are led to believe that Otoya is the Villain of the Week. While he does commit the murder, the actual Big Bad is his lovable teacher Tenma who manipulated his student to commit the murder. In "Final Dance" we are led to believe that Kaede killed her twin sister Momiji because she wanted to leave their partnership. Actually, it was Momiji who killed Kaede and is now impersonating her.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8e00db94	type	Mystery of the Week
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8e00db94	comment	Mystery of the Week
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Pretty much every time. The victims are typically blackmailers or cheating spouses but also include: A corrupt studio executive in "Rehearsal for Murder". A murderous, philandering politician in "The Contradictory Corpse". A child killer in "The Final Greeting". A nagging teacher in "Goodbye for a While". A con artist in "The Murder in a Small Village". An abusive husband in "The Sad Perfect Crime". The killer in "The Murder in a Small Village".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: There are quite a number of cases of this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_970c790a	comment	One of the guest stars in "The Resurrection of Death" is Koji Ishizaka who is best known for playing Kosuke Kindaichi, one of Japan’s most famous detectives and a big influence on Furuhata Ninzaburo. In a very rare twist of this kind on the show, he turns out to be the true Big Bad of the episode. Furuhata refers to him as the most ingenious killer he’s ever met and shows him a surprising amount of reverence and respect..
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_97926168	comment	Toru Anzai from "The Reunion" though this one is a major case of Rewatch Bonus.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Furuhata makes some highly imitable hand gestures.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9e10b88d	type	Defeating the Undefeatable
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9e10b88d	comment	Defeating the Undefeatable: Furuhata arrests his own superior at the end of "The Final Greeting". He also goes up against the Japanese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in "His Excellency Did It". Sadly, he kills himself before Furuhata can arrest him.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a5e0c01	comment	Baseball player Ichiro Suzuki appears As Himself in "A Fair Murderer".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Furuhata sort of plays with this even though he never goes to the lengths of appearing genuinely stupid. His MO is to appear friendly and agreeable to the point where the suspect won’t consider him a serious threat. The sole exception is probably "The Dirty King" where he turns into The Klutz in what is also an example of Early-Installment Weirdness.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Furuhata himself in "Red or Blue". While he is normally amiable with the Villain of the Week during the arrest scene, in this episode he begins to laugh at the bomber’s joke before smacking him right across the face. The bomber is as shocked as we are.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_aaf19fae	comment	Doesn't Like Guns: Furuhata never carries a gun and speaks against carrying a gun in "The Final Greeting".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Furuhata definitely qualifies, especially towards Shintaro. Shintaro himself becomes this in the later season but usually in a way that backfires.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The killer in "The Laughing Kangaroo" kills his research partner in order to steal a formula he devised. It turns out that the formula his research partner came up with had already been discovered in America but the news just hadn’t reached the killer in time. Noriko Kendall in "What Happened in New York" gets away with the murder of her husband except that everyone knows she did it and no one wants to have anything to do with her. She is thus forced to live a lonely life suffering with guilt. The killer in "The Murder in a Small Village" kills a con woman for stealing the villagers’ money and ruining their chances to get a huge distribution deal for their homemade wine. In the end, the villagers get the distribution deal anyway and the harm the con woman did is far less than the harm the murder did to the community. In "Final Dance" Momiji, a timid writer, kills her outgoing twin because she wants to take her place as the beloved soul of the party. In the end, she realizes that she is bad at pretending to be her and does not enjoy her extrovert lifestyle after all.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Just one more thing...". Whenever Furuhata meets the killer he says "I am Furuhata Ninzaburo". Also: "sodeska" (Japanese for "I see") spoken with a very long o sound by Furuhata while scratching his forehead.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b0852187	type	No Warrant? No Problem!
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b0852187	comment	No Warrant? No Problem!: Like Columbo, Furuhata just shows up wherever his suspect goes.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: The victim in "Rehearsal for Murder" gets killed for this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_bb53d08	comment	"Final Dance" is a bonafide Tear Jerker. It turns out that Furuhata’s love interest has been murdered by her twin sister. Furuhata confronts the sister and finds her to be a depressed, lonely woman who simply longed to be like her extroverted, outgoing sister. The episode ends with them dancing in an empty club where Furuhata and the victim went the night before she was killed.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_bda72a5e	type	Clueless Detective
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_bda72a5e	comment	Clueless Detective: Shintaro Imaizumi to a ridiculous extent. He finally gets to lead his own investigation in "Furuhata Goes to the Dentist" but botches it so badly that Furuhata has to abandon his sick leave to take over.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_be186078	type	Exasperated Perp
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_be186078	comment	Exasperated Perp: The cool and polite Japanese exterior is frequently broken by Furuhata’s indefatigable questioning. The most extreme example occurs in "The Contradictory Corpse" in which he makes the killer physically sweat and hyperventilate throughout the episode. The killer is actually relieved once he is arrested that the psychological torture is over.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: From season three onward, the guest stars are featured in the opening title credits alongside Masakazu Tamura. In the fourth season, their pictures are also shown. Very special guests (such as Koshiro Matsumoto and Koji Ishizaka) are sometimes credited at the very end of the closing credits this way.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c439078a	type	Life's Work Ruined
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c439078a	comment	Life's Work Ruined: The authoritarian headmistress in "The Woman Who Never Laughs" cannot stand to see a beloved teacher introduce more liberal attitudes to her rule-oriented school. So she kills him. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in "His Excellency Did It" is a dedicated career politician but when his advisor threatens to reveal some of his dirty dealings which would surely ruin his career he kills him.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c601fc37	comment	The Professional Killer from The Most Dangerous Game who works with the eco-terrorists. While the rest of the group care for the environment, he is only in it for the cash and doesn’t care who he has to kill to get it.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Several: "The Laughing Kangaroo" in which Furuhata and Shintaro win a trip to Australia. "The Dirty King" in which Furuhata and Shintaro go on a business trip. They are then shown returning from the business trip in "Murder Express". "What Happened in New York" in which Furuhata goes to New York to attend Chinami’s wedding. Shintaro tags along even though he’s not invited. "Death in the Clouds" in which Furuhata, Shintaro, and Saionji investigate a death on a plane. "The Reunion" in which Furuhata, Shintaro, and Saionji go to visit Furuhata’s old friend at his picturesque cabin in the forest. On the way back, they stop at a spa in"The Murder in a Small Village". "His Excellency Did It" in which Furuhata, Shintaro, and Saionji go on a holiday to an unnamed South American country. On the day of the return, Furuhata loses his passport and is left alone at the Japanese embassy.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Furuhata and Mukojima first meet in the second episode of the show, "The Moving Corpse". However, the prequel Made-for-TV Movie "Junior High School Student Furuhata" reveals they were childhood friends.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The studio boss in "Rehearsal for Murder" who gets killed by an actor/director for Executive Meddling.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Furuhata. If there’s any running or fighting to be done, he makes Shintaro do it.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Subverted in "The Reunion" in which, even though it seems obvious Toru is planning to kill his wife, he is actually planning to commit suicide, make it appear like murder, and frame his wife.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d104235d	comment	"Final Dance" is a similar case in that it's also a Fair-Play Whodunnit except we think we know who did it. Throughout the episode, we think that Kaede killed her twin sister Momiji. We're only told at the very end that it was Momiji who killed Kaede. She's been impersonating her all the time. The clues are all there, however.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Whenever Furuhata figures out the final clue, the lights dim and he addresses the audience telling us he has solved the case.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: Furuhata, especially in "Junior High School Student Furuhata" where he effortlessly performs the Sherlock Scan.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Happens occasionally. The most extreme example occurs in "The Wrong Man" which consists entirely of a series of own petards exploding in the killer’s face. "Death in the Clouds" is a similar example since there was no crime until the killer tried to hide the body.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: The killer in "The Wrong Man" actually pulls one off. His second one, however, is a complete disaster. Furuhata himself agrees that Tenma in "The Resurrection of Death" cannot be prosecuted for the murders of the Horibe brothers. However, he committed those murders to cover up the murder of their father which happened more than a decade ago and which Furuhata manages to arrest him for.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Furuhata often gets called out for being very mean to Shintaro and Saionji. He doesn’t care.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: The killer in "The Contradictory Corpse" tries this but his fall guy survives. One of the killers in "Appraisal: Murder" does this to the other killer. It backfires horribly.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: A few of the murderers qualify, especially the titular DJ from "Sayonara DJ" who is a former track and field runner.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: A major weakness in "The Laughing Corpse" is that Furuhata has more than enough evidence to convict the killer in the first 20 minutes.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Most episodes feature an example of this.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Happens to an extreme level to Shintaro Imaizumi. In the first season, he is a competent if clumsy and overly enthusiastic detective. He is also a very proficient Go player, even beating Furuhata at the strategy game. From season two onward, he grows stupider and meaner until he pretty much becomes an incompetent cartoon character in the last season and an object of mockery for everyone. A very unusual example happens to Furuhata himself. He gets flanderized in several episodes of season one, most notably "The Dirty King" where he seems to be a Charlie Chaplin-like figure. In most episodes, however, he is his normal polite and serious self.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Detective Haga. The killer in "Motive: Appraisal" is only ever referred to as the owner of the Shunpo-do, an antique shop.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Averted. The superintendent killer in "The Final Greeting" is not corrupt. He killed a gangster in order to avenge the murder of his daughter.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ebf8fc6	type	Not a Morning Person
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ebf8fc6	comment	Not a Morning Person: Furuhata whines if he’s called out to a crime scene before 9.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: The unnamed South American country in "His Excellency Did It".
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode, Furuhata (and occasionally other people) will slap Shintaro’s forehead for saying or doing something incredibly dumb. It makes a cool slapping sound.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series: The very first episode aired, "Message from the Dead", is this as it only features four characters and most of it is a two-hander between Furuhata and the killer. "Broadcast Murder" is this as Furuhata and the killer don’t meet until the last five minutes. "The Wrong Man" and "Death in the Air" play out like farces in which everything that can go wrong for the killer goes wrong while Furuhata merely observes the mayhem. "What Happened in New York" in spades. Not only is the whole episode set on a bus, but it is also the only episode in which the murder happened many years ago and the killer has already been acquitted. The entire episode, instead, plays out in dialogue between Furuhata and the killer as she challenges the great detective to question her and prove she did it. "The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo". Not only is it a Clip Show, not only is it the only episode in which Furuhata Ninzaburo does not appear, not only is there no murder, but it is also a Mockumentary. "The Terror of Dr Kuroiwa" in which Furuhata Ninzaburo pursues a serial killer. "The Reunion" in which we follow the Villain of the Week go through his plan in the presence of Furuhata throughout the entire episode. "The Most Dangerous Game" which is a remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Furuhata is usually completely immune to feminine charms but he falls for the killer in "Final Dance" so badly, he refuses to see the obvious until the end of the episode.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Furuhata loves his food, especially sweets and cannot resist ice cream.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Not when Furuhata Ninzaburo is the investigative officer.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: Most of the victims in this show are failed blackmailers.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Once per Episode, Furuhata (and occasionally other people) will slap Shintaro’s forehead for saying or doing something incredibly dumb. It makes a cool slapping sound. Furuhata’s inability to remember Mukojima’s name. There’s one in the first season which revolves around Furuhata’s inability to operate vending machines.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Almost literally in "The Resurrection of Death". Furuhata races toy cars with the killer.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: Furuhata makes his superior in "The Final Greeting" believe he is this. In fact, Furuhata knew he was the killer from the beginning. The terrorists in "The Most Dangerous Game" pretend to be detectives trying to catch the terrorists. The bomber in "Red or Blue" is an electronics student who gets coincidentally pressed into replacing an injured bomb investigator. Unlike the previous examples, this wasn't part of his plan and actually interferes with it, since being in investigation headquarters keeps him from making further threatening phone calls as he'd promised he would, putting Furuhata on is trail.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: In "The Moving Corpse", the killer pushes the victim in a fit of rage. Unfortunately, the victim slams his head on a table and promptly dies. "Broadcast Murder" is a borderline case. The murder occurs in the heat of the moment when the victim catches the killer, a Phony Psychic, setting up a trick. One of the two murders in "The Contradictory Corpse". "Furuhata Ninzaburo vs. The Quiz King" features a similar case as "The Moving Corpse". "Death in the Clouds" is not even a murder. The victim bangs her head during turbulence and the Villain of the Week hides her body so their affair is not discovered.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ffaa675b	type	Asian Speekee Engrish
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: Whenever the regulars travel to English-speaking countries their English is noticeably this.
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