Series

The Castle of Sand

2011 · 1 season · Crime · Drama · Mystery

On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda." Detective Yoshimura also has a dark side himself from his miserable experience in the war. Now, Detective Yoshimura places himself in the criminal's dark mind to track down the killer. Based on the 1961 novel "Suna no utsuwa" by Seicho Matsumoto it was also made as a feature film The Castle of Sand (1974).

Hiroshi Tamaki

Miki Nakatani

Kuranosuke Sasaki

Kaoru Kobayashi

Ren Osugi

Ai Kato

Hiroki Hasegawa

Makiya Yamaguchi

Masahiko Nishimura

Isao Hashizume

Nenji Kobayashi

Takaaki Enoki

Yoshio Harada

Ryuji Harada

Gaku Yamamoto

• Meiji FujitaDirector
• Yo TakeyamaScreenplay
• Seicho MatsumotoNovel
• Takeo YonedaEditor

First aired

September 10, 2011

Last aired

September 17, 2011

Status

Ended

Original language

Japanese

Episodes

2

Genres

Crime, Drama, Mystery

• Season 12 episodes · 2011