Film Seizaburō Kawazu starred as Kindaichi in the 1954 film
Yurei otoko, while
Ryō Ikebe appeared in 1956's
Vampire Moth, and
Ken Takakura in 1961's
Akuma no temari-uta.
Akira Nakao starred as Kindaichi in
Yoichi Takabayashi's 1975 adaptation of
The Honjin Murders entitled
Death at an Old Mansion, which was entered into the
26th Berlin International Film Festival. Director
Kon Ichikawa made six films about Kindaichi, starring
Koji Ishizaka: •
The Inugami Family (1976) •
Akuma no temari-uta (1977) •
Gokumon-to (1977) •
Queen Bee (1978) •
The House of Hanging on Hospital Slope (1979) •
The Inugamis (2006) Kiyoshi Astumi played the detective in
Yatsuhaka-mura (1977), while
Toshiyuki Nishida appeared in ''Devil's Flute
(1979). Director Nobuhiko Obayashi made a parody film in 1979 titled The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
, starring Ikkô Furuya in the title role. Takeshi Kaga played the character in the 1981 film Akuryoto'', whilst 1996's
Yatsuhaka-Mura starred
Etsushi Toyokawa.
Television There have been numerous television drama films starring various different actors as Kindaichi: •
Takaya Kamikawa in
Kindaichi Kōsuke File - Meiro Sou no Sangeki (2002,
TV Tokyo) and.
Kindaichi Kōsuke File - Gokumon Tou (2003, TV Tokyo) •
Goro Inagaki in
Inugamike no Ichizoku (2004),
Yatsuhakamura (2004),
Jōōbachi (2006),
Aakuma ga Kitarite Fue o Fuku (2007) and
Akuma no Temariuta (2009) •
Sosuke Ikematsu in
Kindaichi Kosuke Tōjō! (2016) •
Hiroki Hasegawa in
Gokumon tō (2016) •
Hidetaka Yoshiokain
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku (2018) Actor Kazuyuki Furuya played Kindaichi on television for nearly 30 years. In 2013 and 2014 a pair of television films were made pairing Kindaichi with another famous fictional Japanese detective
Edogawa Ranpo's
Kogoro Akechi.
Tomohisa Yamashita played Kindaichi, whilst
Hideaki Itô was Akechi.
Manga and anime A profile of Kosuke appears at the end of the manga
Case Closed Volume 6. , the main character of
Kindaichi Case Files, is depicted as the grandson of Kosuke Kindaichi. In episode 14 of
Lupin the Third Part II, a German count invites the best private detectives from all over the world - including Kindaichi - to the maiden voyage of his blimp in order to catch
Lupin III, who is after the count's jewel. In the
Lupin the Third Part IV episode "From Japan With Love", the celebrity detective Akechi Kousuke Holmes is partially named after Kosuke Kindaichi (as well as
Kogoro Akechi and
Sherlock Holmes). ==See also==