The Files of Young Kindaichi 2022 Blu-ray Box

Shunsuke Michieda of Naniwa Danshi takes his first solo leading role in a television drama. The landmark mystery series The Files of Young Kindaichi returns with its first new series in approximately eight years. Since its initial broadcast in 1995, it has attracted viewers across generations. This new production goes beyond the usual scale of a television drama to present the series' largest undertaking yet.

Taking up the baton from Tsuyoshi Domoto, Jun Matsumoto, Kazuya Kamenashi and Ryosuke Yamada, Michieda becomes the fifth actor to portray Kindaichi. Hajime Kindaichi is a brilliant high-school detective with an IQ exceeding 180 and the famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi as his grandfather. Together with childhood friend Miyuki Nanase and Inspector Kenmochi of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, he exposes bold, intricate tricks in baffling murder cases and uncovers the criminals' sorrowful motives.

Using curses and ghost stories distinctive to Japan, the series reconstructs classic and newer episodes from a contemporary perspective. Enjoy this definitive Young Kindaichi on Blu-ray. Curses, hauntings and strange phenomena: expose the human beings lurking in their shadows. Old and new masterpiece episodes come together in the series' largest-scale production.

The six-disc box contains approximately 480 minutes of main footage across five Blu-rays, plus a bonus Blu-ray. Bonuses comprise a special making-of feature; Guess the Role from Shunsuke Michieda's Clues; pre-broadcast special interviews with Michieda, with Moka Kamishiraishi and Ikki Sawamura, and with Michieda and Taisho Iwasaki; encouragement for Michieda from Naniwa Danshi; a quiz about Hajime's views on romance; and selected Saki Camera footage. An all-color booklet is enclosed.

The cast stars Shunsuke Michieda of Naniwa Danshi, Moka Kamishiraishi, Taisho Iwasaki of Bishonen and Johnny's Jr., and Ikki Sawamura. Specifications and bonuses are subject to change without notice.