The First Case
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The First Case (最初の事件) is the 1st episode of season 1 of the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock, released on 27 april 2018, starring Yuko Takeuchi as "Sherlock" and Shihori Kanjiya as Wato Tachibana. 47 min.
Dr. Tachibana returns from Syria and is greeted by her mentor, Dr. Mizuno, when a remote bomb detonates in his stomach and he dies. Sherlock is asked by the Inspector Reimon to help on the case. Wanting to know the truth behind her mentor's death, Tachibana offers to help Sherlock who reluctantly agrees. Akiko Mizuno, the widow, had received an experimental health tracking pill and modified it to be a remote bomb. She intended to use it as revenge to kill a recently released drug addict who had killed her young daughter, Airi. When her husband discovers the large amount of money she spent donating to receive these pills, she is forced to kill him with a deadly pill. Before she can be arrested, she sets off the bomb pill in her own stomach. The hotel where Tachibana was temporarily staying, burns down and she is forced to move in and live with Sherlock.
References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories in this episode :
- When Wato first meets Sherlock, Sherlock is working in an hospital (like in STUD 88).
- Miss Sherlock makes a deduction about Wato's past location (Syria) (vs Afghanistan in STUD 94).
- The miniaturized bomb is called the "devil's foot" (reference to the original story of the same name The Devil's Foot).
- Poldhu, the company manufacturing the micro-chips, is a reference to Poldhu Bay in Cornwall where Holmes and Watson investigate in DEVI (2).
- Miss Sherlock's address number is 221B. The original Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lived at 221B, Baker Street, London (STUD (182).
- Miss Sherlock and Wato go to Club Criterion (reference to the Criterion Bar in STUD 21).
- Kimie Hatano, the lodger of Sherlock, is the Mrs. Hudson archetype.
- Sherlock's older brother, Kento, is working for the Cabinet Intelligence Office (like the original Mycroft Holmes in GREE 13).
Photos
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Sherlock (Yuko Takeuchi)
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Dr. Wato Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya)
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Kento Futaba (Yukiyoshi Ozawa)
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Kimie Hatano (Ran Ito)
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Inspector Reimon (Kenichi Takitô)
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Sergeant Shibata (Tomoya Nakamura)
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Dr. Takayuki Mizuno (Satoshi Nikaido)
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Akiko Mizuno (Asami Mizukawa)
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Bartender (Win Morisaki)
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Shuji Kihara (Donpei Tsuchihira)
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Sherlock in Hospital
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221B
Cast
- Miss Futaba aka Sherlock : Yuko Takeuchi
- Dr. Wato Tachibana : Shihori Kanjiya
- Kento Futaba (Sherlock's brother) : Yukiyoshi Ozawa
- Inspector Reimon : Kenichi Takito
- Sergeant Tatsuya Shibata : Tomoya Nakamura
- Kimie Hatano : Ran Ito
- Akiko Mizuno : Asami Mizukawa
- Dr. Takayuki Mizuno : Satoshi Nikaido
- DJ Kuya Kirisaki : Shuntaro Yanagi
- Yohei Makishima : Eita Okuno
- Shuji Kihara : Donpei Tsuchihira
- Bartender : Win Morisaki
- Rina Nishikawa : Emma
- Ryuichi Kurimoto : Yukinori Izaki
- Professor Maruyama : Makoto Haneda
- Public Relations : Keichiro Mori
- Akiyoshi Yamaguchi : Hidetochi Kawaya
- Airi Omura : Nono Obata
- Little Girl with rope #1 : Riko Yonemura
- Little Girl with rope #2 : Nao Kobuki
- Policewoman : Ai Onda
- Policeman #1 : Taichi Aito
- Policeman #2 : Takuya Kurihara
- Drug Addict : Muroran Terada
- Drug Addict : Kazuya Maekawa
Crew
- Director : Jun'ichi Mori
- Screenplay : Amane Marumo, Yosuke Masaike, Jun'ichi Mori
- Producers : Koichi Murakami, Noriko Toishi
- Co-Producers : Hiroki Iwasaki
- Music : Kenishiro Suehiro