Film

Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories

2015 · 1h 37m · Crime · Mystery

Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.

Teppei Koike

Sabu

Kenichi Endo

Ichi

Kōtarō Satomi

Takashi Naito

Policeman Saheiji

Rina Uchiyama

Yumiko Fujita

Mayuko Fukuda

Masami Horiuchi

Daijirō Harada

Ayaka Kojima

Yoshiyuki Shibata

• Nozomu AmamiyaDirector
• Toshio TeradaScreenplay
• Shotaro IshinomoriNovel
• Morinobu ShindoProducer

Release date

December 19, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Crime, Mystery