
Galileo(2007)
Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.


A long-running NHK investigative strand that revisits headline-making unsolved cases with a hybrid of docudrama and documentary, drawing on police files, journalists’ notes, and new interviews to surface leads and lessons.

Takao Osawa

Mirai Moriyama

Ryuta Sato

Junpei Mizobata

Reo Tamaoki

Oshirō Maeda

Win Morisaki

Atsuro Watabe
NHK Special: Unsolved Cases is a drama, documentary series that first aired in 2011. it stars Takao Osawa, Mirai Moriyama, Ryuta Sato. A long-running NHK investigative strand that revisits headline-making unsolved cases with a hybrid of docudrama and documentary, drawing on police files, journalists’ notes, and new interviews to surface leads and lessons.
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